Re: Bug#21969: debian-policy: needs clarification about Standards-Version
Dale Scheetz wrote:
>On 7 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
>> Fine. But the moment any package ``ignores'' policy and
>> insists policy is not broken, so should not be fixed, I shall file
>> bugs against the package.
>
>Which I will happily reasign to Policy.
Hang on, Dale. Just think about this.
A package ignores policy - the only good reason is that policy is
inappropriate to this particular package.
In that case, the policy is inadequate - file a bug against policy,
requesting a better definition.
But if the package maintainer says that policy is _not_ broken, the
fault must be with the package.
You are saying that you would reassign a bug to policy, while at the
same time denying that policy is broken? That does not make sense.
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