Re: Proposed new POSIX sh policy
Bruce Sass <bmsass@shaw.ca> writes:
> On Thu November 16 2006 18:23, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> O, good grief. This is not Law 101. This is the technical
>> policy all kinds of non native developers must read, understand, and
>> follow; arcane corner cases and increasingly complex language to
>> resolve corner cases just makes policy asinine, turgid, obfuscated,
>> and abstruse.
> If packages can be tagged as RC buggy because of Policy violations then
> Policy is law. Other than that, I agree.
There is an intermediate layer of human judgement between Policy and
RC-bugginess, namely the release managers. Manoj has been working on
bringing Policy more closely in line with the release policy, but I expect
that line of human judgement will remain. I think it's valuable; there's
no substitute for human evaluation of the importance of a bug.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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