Your message dated Thu, 1 May 2014 22:08:43 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#620109: Policy §3.5 (on Pre-Depends) does not reflect
actual practice
has caused the Debian Bug report #620109,
regarding Policy §3.5 (on Pre-Depends) does not reflect actual practice
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.1.0
Raphael Hertzog wrote[1]:
> It has been discussed on -release, not on -devel:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2011/02/threads.html#00381
>
> (I don't think it matters much given that all important stakeholders where
> involved)
No strong objection from me. I guess that suggests we should change
policy §3.5 at the same time (to permit discussion of Pre-Depends on
debian-release as an alternative to debian-devel, for example)?
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/619186
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On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 05:05:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:33:25PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> >
> > > The reason
> > > we request peer review of Pre-Depends is that they have a cost and should
> > > not be abused.
> >
> > Okay. That's not what policy §3.5 says; it does not say Pre-Depends should
> > or must be peer-reviewed or that one should examine all aspects when adding
> > them but simply that there should be
> >
> > (1) a discussion on debian-devel, and
> > (2) a consensus that adding this particular Pre-Depends is a good idea.
>
> I think the policy is correct. I would favor keeping the current wording.
> As you can see in the debian-devel archive, a lot of developer misunderstand
> what Pre-Depends actually do and adding spurious Pre-Depends can be quite
> disruptive to the upgrade path. Hence the need to refer to debian-devel for
> review. On the other hand, making the requirement more stringent would be
> too bureaucratic (sometimes Pre-Depends are necessary and should be used).
>
> So I would favor closing this bug, if nobody object.
Accordingly, I close this bug.
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