Re: Anarchism package
> On 15-Nov-00, 16:44 (CST), Ralf Treinen <rt@club-internet.fr> wrote:
> > > On 15-Nov-00, 15:51 (CST), Ralf Treinen <treinen@debian.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The best would be to ban completely religious, philosophical or
> > > > political documents from Debian.
> > >
> > > Such as, perhaps, the GNU Manifesto? Or the Debian Social Contract?
> >
> > Before being accepted to Debian I sent a declaration to my AM that I
> > abide by the Debian Social Contract. I guess everybody of us did in
> > some sense, this is why we are here. It is *our* manfesto. The GNU
> > manifesto, for instance, is not our manifesto.
>
> Irrelevant, in both cases. We can either ban all "completely[1]
> religious, philosophical, or political documents" from Debian, or
> none. Trying to pick and choose leads will inevitably lead to a flamewar
I think that being a founding document of Debian makes all the difference.
The Social Contract (and maybe the Debian Manfesto)
certainly belong to these, hence we should of course distribute them.
These documents are about us.
> I'm hoping that the imminent implementation of package pools will make
> it relatively easy to split out the "data" section, and thus sideline
> this argument.
Indeed, splitting these documents off would solve the problem.
-Ralf.
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