On 11/16/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <[email protected]> wrote: > No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 14:19, Sebastian Kayser > <[email protected]> escreveu: >> * Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I will also mention, given that Maciej gave the debian sharedlibs >>> policy (section 8.1) as a reference, if we abided by the WHOLE text of >>> that section. Again, my further notes on that, are at the bottom of >>> the wiki page. >> >> When it comes to policy vs "when seen beneficial" in this case, I regard >> it as helpful to have as few exceptions and as much of a standard as >> possible. > > There's also the question of who is the subject to see the benefit.
"The benefit " is supposed to be for the user, not the maintainer OR the release manager. :) As far as who determines it before the package is released: by definition, the person with the most authority to make that decision, is the release manager. > Is it the maintainer or the release manager? What if the two > disagree? Ideally, "the maintainer" should respect the release manager's experience in the matter. But there's always recourse to the board. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
