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Re: unreproducable bugs



On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:11:34 +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org> said: 

> On 20050716T195244-0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> That's a far cry different from someone wanting to enforce a
>> requirement.

> Who, in this thread, is this hypothetical someone?

> As far as I can tell, this thread started with a simple question: is
> there a policy for a certain thing?  There were a couple of honest
> responses, Then we have a lot of whining about how the younglings
> cannot think for themselves from people who should know better, and
> a mini-flamewar based on those thoughts, but I haven't seen anyone
> talking about enforcing anything, until now.

> Where did the old-fashioned practice of reading comprehension and
> assuming good intentions (instead of stupidity or malice) go [1]?
> (No, this isn't directed solely, or even mainly, at you:)

        A little reading comprehension on your part would help a bit
 here. Hint: dict policy would help.

        The discussion started wuth a wuestion of _policy_. Once you
 comprehend what that word means, you'll see what Thomas meant.

        manoj
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