Le dimanche, 2 décembre 2018, 00.23:05 h CET Andreas Henriksson a écrit :
> On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 07:20:57PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
> > * With my TC hat on, I have formally asked the debootstrap maintainers
> > (and specifically Hideki Yamane) if they would consider a toggle of the
> > default.
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/914897#73
>
> May I ask you to share why you did that? I'm interested to know the
> reasoning.
Sure. My reasoning is: as there's a non-zero probability for the TC to end up
using it's "§6.1.4 Overrule a Developer" power, I want to make sure that:
* said developers are aware of the situation as presented to the TC;
* they are given explicit advance notice that the TC might end up using this
power to overrule a decision of theirs;
* given the surrounding discussions (that they might not necessarily follow),
I feel it's important to give them as much context as possible.
Both our understanding of the situation and the state of the discussion have
changed since the decision at hand was taken (5+ months ago); I want to make
sure that the TC would only overrule a _recent_ and _active_ decision of the
debootstrap maintainers.
In other words, if the debootstrap maintainers now agree with Ian about
toggling the "merged-/usr" default back to false, there's really no point for
the TC to overrule unnecessarily, or even continue discussing this. And if
they don't agree, their _current_ reasoning will provide value to the
discussion, and ideally provide for a better TC decision.
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