Re: request for Technical Committee ruling on Bug #109436
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 03:45:06PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> After being repeatedly slapped with a wet trout, I have been
> convinced to change my views on this issue. (I'll refrain from
> reiterating what Raul, Jason, and Guy have already said before).
Sounds like that makes it unanimous against me.
I'd like the Technical Committee to:
1) Tell me exactly how how rename and/or reversion my package;
2) Revise the Debian Policy Manual to forbid the action I took, since it
is not permitted.
If you guys need to vote first, I'll wait until that is resolved.
Manoj, I'd appreciate hearing from you privately on specifically what
changed your mind; Guy proposed adding an epoch, which actually turned
out to not be a solution at all, for instance. So it is unclear to me
which statements in all of Raul's, Jason's, and Guy's mails are to be
held as controlling here. Furthermore, if the Committee agrees with
Jason's mail "My thought", I need an answer from the archive maintainers
on 1). The Policy Manual should be further amended to mandate that
developers request and receive approval from the archive maintainers on
how their packages are to be named and versioned. (It could probably be
made part of the ITP process.)
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