Re: command -v in postinsts violating policy
On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 22:59:58 +0200, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Sat, May 25, 2002 at 10:17:17PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> > This suggests to me a pragmatic solution:
> > - ignore this issue for woody
>
> Of course i do not agree on this: doing as an ostrich will no lead us to
> any good.
>
> Why did you, who becamed developers before me, who either wrote or approved
> the Debian Policy, do want to avoid it?
Perhaps because long-time developers tend to look at things in a broader
perspective, and realise that policy is just a tool, not holy scripture? The
project went along fine for several years without requiring an explicit
policy document. At its current size the project needs a policy document,
but it is still no substitute for common sense.
A few years ago, we wrote down our common values in the Social Contract,
point 4 being "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software". In my
opinion, the majority of our users are better served by us getting woody out
of the door as soon as is reasonably possible rather than delaying woody's
release to fix an obscure problem that affects probably less than 1% of
Debian installs and that can be worked around user-side fairly easily.
Ray
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