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Re: Draft GR for supermajority fix [and 1 more messages]



Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Draft GR for supermajority fix"):
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> wrote:
> > I'm also not very happy with the wording of supermajority.  It's
> > not really defined what it means, but is used.  For instance
> > 4.1.5.3 talks about a "3:1 majority" and not about a
> > supermajority.  I will probably translate this to if N > 1
> > for use in devotee.
> 
> The original patch for this issue changed those to refer to a
> supermajority requirement:
> 
>   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636783#10

So it did.

> Using the term "supermajority" consistently to refer to 3:1 etc but
> not 1:1 seems like the clearer approach to me.

Yes.  I will fix this, although I don't think I want to supply the
whole thing as a diff.

Ian.


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