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Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !



Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Our supermajority requirement has changed !"):
> On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 11:49:55PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > While I'm looking at this, A.6(3)(3) is very oddly phrased and might
> > turn out to be buggy in the future: if anyone were to introduce a `3:2
> > supermajority' requirement anywhere that referred to `the Debian vote
> > counting system' then a literal reading of A.6(3)(3) says that the
> > majority ratio to use is actually 1 !
> 
> So set the supermajority to be 1.5:1.

Um, yes, you can do that if you're aware of the bug.  But there are
people using the Debian system who aren't part of Debian, and it's
reasonable for us to be a little concerned about that, perhaps ?

Ian.



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