The way I see it, these are mutually exclusive proposals.
Are you basing that on anything you put on http://www.debian.org/vote/2004/vote_002 as "The actual text of the amendment"?
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It did seem clear to me that the proposals were diametrically opposed to each other.
As it does to me. That is why I think it useless, too. -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only and possibly not of any group I know.