On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 10:14:29PM -0800, Joseph Carter wrote: > I will conditionally support this... > > My first condition is that this is phased in--it must not be a requirement > for potato or even potato+1. (I'll accept potato alone if a reasonable > consensus of people believe we can do it for potato+1 without interfering > with release timeframes..)
I agree that we shouldn't require it for potato. I agree that non-compliance with this policy probably won't be release critical. On the other hand, I find it hard to imagine any circumstance that would prevent fixing the small set of packages which would be affected by this policy by potato+1. > My second condition is that this is done as part of the ftp archive revamp > rather than before or after. If Guy is going to implement pools for > potato+1 it doesn't make sense to make a bunch of changes that include > significant modifications to dselect twice. ie, if packages are going to > start using Enhances, they should start using Keywords at the same time. > This (hopefully) prevents duplicated work and wasted bandwidth. I think what you're saying here is: the policy which supports Enhances: should be the same as the policy which supports Keywords: ? [Because it would be silly, in this case, to postpone package updates till after some proposed ftp site administration gets done.] > The reasonable condition that bandwidth not be wasted by modifying every > (or at least most) packages twice I think is just a practicality concern. > It's also a convenient excuse to make sure this is done at the same time > package pools are so moving of non-free and contrib to help seperate them > from main can happen at the same time.. Hopefully this will make sure > people trying to do all of those things cooperate and things happen > smoothly. Sure, but this concern applies to most policy updates, not just the two you mentioned. More generally, we need some kind of release management for debian-policy and that should somehow interelate to general debian release management. This a rather larger topic, in general, but hopefully we can just rely on the policy editors for now. -- Raul
