Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 10:56:58AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I don't much like the word either, but at this point it's an IEEE and >> ISO standard (IEEE 1541-2002). My feeling is that standards are more >> important than aesthetics and we should generally follow established >> standards in areas like this unless there's some compelling reason >> not to. > I don't agree that we should commit ourselves to following ugly > standards. There are, after all, a great many standards from a great > many standards bodies, only some of which Debian actually strives to > comply with. :) There are a great many standards bodies, and then there's ISO and IEEE, whose standards we follow very widely across Debian. We're not talking about an ECMA standard here. :) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
