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Re: Policy process (was: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Re: Moving /var/run to a tmpfs?)



On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 11:43:18AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Copying the debian-policy list, since this conversation is basically about
> that.
> 
> Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> writes:
> 
> > I don't think policy changes need to be seconded.  We have a policy team
> > that should decide on what comes in policy and what not.  Although, it
> > more looks like it's just 1 person doing all the work.
> 
> > I sometimes feel that they go to slow which changing things, and I'm not
> > really sure it's a good or bad thing.
> 
> > Some of those currently open bugs against the policy package, like your
> > ~ in version numbers, really shouldn't be a problem to get into the
> > policy.  I don't think anybody has a problem with it.  I think it's just
> > that no new version of the policy has been made yet.
> 
> Well, policy-process is still shipped with the debian-policy package, and
> my experience in the past is that when I follow that process, the changes
> go into Policy fairly quickly.  Certainly seconding would show that
> someone reviewed the wording of my proposed ~ patch and has confirmed that
> it sounds like an accurate and implementable description of their
> behavior.
> 
> Maybe Manoj could weigh in on how he sees the current process?

That document says things like:
     The group that decides on policy should be the group of
     developers on the debian-policy mailing list, which is how it
     was always done; so the group of policy maintainers have no
     real power over policy.

And that is not the impression I get from it.

Also, I believe this has changed since they are now delegates of the
DPL:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00002.html

But it's unclear to me what this exactly means.


Kurt



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