On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 07:44:08AM +0000, Bastien Roucariès wrote: > I believe that policy is like law and devref is some kind of circulaire in > civil law country > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulaire) an interpretation of a legal text > that do not > introduce new rules but clarify law.
I agree on what you wrote about policy hence many years ago I made
piuparts.debian.org prominently display liw's piuparts slogan: Policy is your
friend. Trust the Policy. Love the Policy. Obey the Policy.
I disagree however that dev-ref is really the same as a Circulaire. Sometimes
this might be the case, but sometimes also not. dev-ref can be a link
collection,
can point or include best practices, can list more than one way to do it etc.
to put it dffierently: dev-ref is not about whether something is legal, but
whether
it's sensible to do.
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cheers,
Holger
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