Re: Bug reports of DFSG violations are tagged ‘lenny-ignore’?
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:48:57AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 16:08 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 08:41:16AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> > >
> > > Has the current release team lowered the bar on Debian actually
> > > trying to follow the social contract?
> >
> > Yes, they have.
> >
> > Furthermore, the FTP team (which is supposed to be in charge of DFSG
> > enforcement) has decided to look the other way:
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497823
>
> I had understood that we had passed a GR to allow--ONCE--a past release
> with these bugs not fixed, with the understanding they would be fixed
> the next time. Have I missed something?
Apparently, our control structures are not reliable enough to _enforce_
what we have decided. It seems we relied primarily on the release team,
which has betrayed the goals of the project, and only count on the FTP
team as a fallback, which so far has done nothing about it.
Looks clear that we need to change something don't it?
--
Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
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