Hello, On Mon 30 Jul 2018 at 02:20PM +1000, Stuart Prescott wrote: > The normal mantra is: "policy is to document standard practice", "policy is > not a stick to beat maintainers with", "policy changes should (normally) not > make packages instabuggy". The current approach is not consistent with > Debian's normal processes for dealing with Policy; vendor.series *is* standard > practice and packages would be made instabuggy for carrying such files if > policy were used as a stick as requested. > > (I'm not claiming that this is not a misfeature or that as a project we > shouldn't be helping maintainers and derivatives to get rid of vendor.series, > just that pretending that it's only a policy issue and then using policy as a > back door to overrule maintainers is completely the wrong way of doing it and > undermines both Policy and TC.) We're not really in the normal Policy case anymore, because normally people talk it out and reach consensus. For this bug that simply has not happened. -- Sean Whitton
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