Please remove the following email address: e.little...@gmail.com On Sat, Sep 9, 2023 at 5:48 PM Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> writes: > > > It has been four months since the General Resolution 2022/vote_003 was > > voted¹, but it has not yet been completely adopted. The archive area was > > created and at least a package was uploaded to it in October, but it has > > not seen further movement. Two days ago, a call to action for moving > > packages was sent by Cyril Brulebois², and I just sent a mail checking > > for other places where it should be included³. > > > ¹ https://www.debian.org/vote/2022/vote_003 > > ² https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2023/01/msg00150.html > > ³ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2023/01/msg00018.html > > > To my surprise, the non-free-firmware archive area has not yet been > > discussed for inclusion in the Policy. > > > I am (now!) aware there is a clear process to get changes included in > > the Policy, but this is the first time I do this, so please excuse me > > for jumping all the way to "State D: Wording proposed" (of course, my > > words can be checked and improved, particularly given I'm not a native > > English speaker). > > > ⁴ https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-process.html > > > I am suggesting the following patch, which I'm attaching to this bug > > report, and also uploaded them to my fork of debian-policy in Salsa: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/gwolf/policy/-/commit/79c58a40065c01f56850f86e883d8fa482c7cca0 > > Thank you! I also second this change, and have merged it for the next > version of Policy, including the fixes suggested by James Addison. I > numbered the footnotes in chapter two so that both non-free and > non-free-firmware could reference the same footnote. > > An editorial note: Gunnar's patch introduced non-free-firmware after main > and before contrib and non-free, and after some consideration I kept that > order because I think it reflects the high likelihood that the typical > user will encounter the non-free-firmware archive area given the results > of the GR. That does mean that the contrib and non-free sections have > been renumbered to 2.2.3 and 2.2.4, which resurrects a section 2.2.4 that > previously was for non-US back when we had cryptography restrictions. I > don't think this will cause any actual problems (and one of my long-term > wishlist items is for Policy to rely less on section numbering, which is > inherently unstable, and switch to some sort of persistent ID), but it > seemed worth mentioning. > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > >
