Bill Allombert writes: > In my view it is detrimental for the policy proces for the Debian policy > to include decisions made by the TC, because this leads to a situation > where some policy text is frozen because the policy editors cannot change > it without potentially overriding the TC.
Then the TC should (always) state explicitly that changing this using normal processes is allowed. The "Debian Maintainer" role was introduced via GR which also specified implementation details ("DM-Upload-Allowed" in source packages, jetring to be used to maintain the keyring on Alioth, ...). Quite a bit of which has changed without a second GR as it was assumed that "The initial policy for ... will be ..." meant the policies could be changed via normal processes, usually by the responsible people agreeing on a change. So I think having parts of policy frozen can be avoided even when the TC sets it; I even agree that it should be avoided. Ansgar