also sprach Branden Robinson / Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[2005.07.07.0836 +0200]:
The power of the maintainers of the Debian Policy Manual is
substantial; they have the power to mandate standards of behavior
for Debian packages, and a significant change to Debian Policy can
martin f krafft wrote:
Uh, isn't the Debian policy a document for existing practices,
rather than a vehicle to force maintainers down a certain road?
Debian Policy Manual
Abstract
This manual describes the policy requirements for the Debian GNU/Linux
distribution. This includes the
Sory that you get the mail twice now, martin, I accidentally sent
the first one to you instead of the list -.-
Here's my (also) personal reply:
also sprach Michael Weyershäuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.07.07.1431 +0200]:
I guess you were refering to chapter 6 of the Developers Reference,
No,
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:39 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Michael Weyershäuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.07.07.1431 +0200]:
I guess you were refering to chapter 6 of the Developers Reference,
No, I was refering to the policy.
Best packaging practices, or something like that.
also sprach Ian Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.07.07.1501 +0200]:
I don't think that having policy be determined by existing practises and
forcing maintainers to follow it are mutually exclusive.
Once a strategy is common and proven it enters policy, at which point it
becomes compulsory
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:39 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
Sure. But I am talking about changes. Those are not made and then
everyone is expected to abide by them. Instead, they are catalysed
from common and proven strategies.
True enough. But read the statement of the fact that policy
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