On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 10:33:56AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> Given option B as the winner for the most
> recent election, and given current release policy
> (http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_release_policy.txt) I think we need
> to issue a statement along the lines of
>
> We ratify the current release policy with the additional note that dfsg
> issues which would have been ignored before GR 2004-003 shall be tagged
> "sarge-ignore".
Uh, can we have something more descriptive than just "the current
release policy", and avoid dictating mechanism ("sarge-ignore") rather
than just policy? Also, some issues that would have been ignored before
GR 2004-003 might not have been related to these concerns, and may not
need to be ignored now.
Points to consider:
* what stuff must and needn't comply with the DFSG, according to
the reverted social contract ("Debian will be 100% free
software") -- docs, firmware, data files for games, rfcs, ...?
* what stuff must and needn't comply with the DFSG when the SC
is re-amended after sarge is release -- woody updates? sarge
updates? stuff in the new testing? new uploads?
Note that there isn't really a "current release policy" on this issue --
the policy before the original GR was clear, the policy since then has
been ambiguous at best, and more closely approximated non-existant.
Cheers,
_/\ <-- RM cap
aj
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