Re: Exceptions to policy
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I'm the original author of most of the core text in the policy manual
> (or was, I may not be). When I wrote it I anticipated that people
> might need to violate the policy in special circumstances, and didn't
> intend people to take it as a set of absolute rules.
[snip]
As Manoj already said here, the project has changed. We do have a lot more
maintainers now, and I'm sure not everyone has the technical experience to
decide himself, whether he has to follow policy or not.
Therefore, I'd prefer another approach, which has already been presented
before: The language used in the policy manuals should make it clear which
sentences are `suggestions' and which are `mandatory' (e.g., `should' and
`must').
Though, I think this is already done that way, I'll check out the manuals
for this again. (If someone discovers statements in the manual which use
the wrong `priority level', please drop me a note.) I'll report the
results from this to debian-policy (where we could discuss unclear cases).
BTW, I hope that everyone here knows that bug reports and suggestions
about how the policy manuals could be improved are always welcomed!
Thanks,
Chris
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