Hello, On Sun 29 Jul 2018 at 10:14PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Sean Whitton dijo [Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 09:30:04AM +0800]: >> > I believe his request might also be considered under §6.1.1, since we're >> > being asked about a policy change. (After talking to Sean in person, he >> > said he intended it under §6.1.3, not §6.1.1, though.) >> >> I think technically it's §6.1.3 because according to the policy team >> delegation, we decide what goes into the policy manual. >> >> But it certainly falls under at least one of §6.1.1 and §6.1.3, and not >> §6.1.4. > > ...Although if we make a policy change in this, it will require > cooperation of the dpkg developers if we don't want to go into 6.1.4 > (which we don't). Sorry, I don't follow. Surely policy can disallow things in packages even though those things have support in dpkg. For example, dpkg lets packages connect to the Internet to download and embed dependencies, but we forbid that. Whether or not the feature is removed from dpkg seems orthogonal to the T.C. bug I filed. -- Sean Whitton
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