On 25-Mar-01, 04:26 (CST), Anthony Towns <[email protected]> wrote: > If you create a "must" directive, then you've just created a reason to > have a number of extra RC bugs. Indeed, that's the only point of making > it a "must" instead of a "should".
The point of making a "must" requirement is that the consequences of not following that requirment are sufficiently serious to justify removing a package that does not follow that requirement. The number of packages affected is largely irrelevant. If I propose that "packages must not call 'rm -rf /' in their postinst script", we could all agree that it was a completely reasonable requirement no matter how many packages were affected. > If you're not going to bother filing the RC bugs, there's no reason > not to leave it as a "should". If you are going to file the RC bugs, > then someone's got to figure out which packages it applies to at some > point anyway. There's a huge difference between "you have to find all the affected packages" and "someone (probably many people) will have to find the affected packages". Are you also going to require that each person who suggests a modification to a proposal adjust the list appropriately? And who gets to keep up with checking the new packages every day? > Because people don't seem to understand the point of the must/should > dichotomy. The must/should dichotomy is (or at least should be) based on the real consequences of not following a recommendation. The bug system severities are just there to make it easier to track. > Encouraging people to list the packages which'll have RC bugs filed > against them due to a proposal they're making doesn't seem particularly > drastic. Encouraging I could agree with, particularly when the check could be automated against the Packages file. But even an automated check against the maintainer scripts is not feasible for most people, and a lot of checks are not possible to automate. Steve -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Please do not CC me on mail sent to this list; I subscribe to and read every list I post to.)
