Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring
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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Apr 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > It's up to you which guidelines you want to follow--but if you want to
> > maintain packages for our distribution, you'll have to follow our
> > guidelines! Our policy applies to all packages in the distribution. Any
> > package failing current policy in a severe way will be removed from the
> > distribution.
> >
> Then you will need to remove libc6, as the loader is not stripped, as
> dictated by policy. If I strip it, as policy demands, it will not work.
I said `failing [...] in a severe way'.
> Policy statements that fail to provide an adequate exception mechanism are
> totally broken.
>
> We have several "work arounds" for this policy, and the "not yet
> authorized" package in question will not be the first that desires, or
> requires, more than one maintainer.
>
> I have yet to hear a good technical reason for restricting package
> maintainance to a single person. Yes, there are several accounting issues
> that keep coming up, but those are for the individuals actually
> implimenting a multi-maintainer package to resolve between them.
>
> Personally, I find this dictatorial attitude about Policy as potentially
> more dangerous than no policy at all.
Please read my message again more carefully. I only objected to the way
you treat policy.
The reason for our policy is not part of _this_ discussion--it is
discussed on debian-policy in another thread. The only thing that counts
in this discussion is that it's *not* up to the maintainer to decide
whether he/she wants to follow policy or not.
If you're intrested in discussing pros and cons of section 2.3.2, please
join the discussion on debian-policy.
Chris
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