On Mon, 04 Nov 2013, Bill Allombert wrote: > Such policy change should have been proposed before --commit was implemented. > dpkg is supposed to follow policy not the other way round.
No, the policy doesn't dictate everything top-down. Large part of it are built on top of existing practices that it merely formalizes. This change was discussed on -devel. Please stop looking for problems where there are none. http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Discover the Debian Administrator's Handbook: → http://debian-handbook.info/get/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

