Re: Policy §10.4 as a divergence from usptream (renamings to remove extensions like .pl and .sh).

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> writes:

> Currently every single maintainer is forced to invent a convincing
> text to educate upstream. The position of a single maintainer could be
> drastically strengthened if there would be a widely accepted document
> (not only in the Debian world) which gives a clear reasoning. Writing
> such a document and finding agreement in several distributions is
> challenging - but IMHO a reasonable step if we want to stick to our
> policy in the current form.

Perhaps <distributions@lists.freedesktop.org> would be an appropriate
forum to attempt formulation of such a policy.

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Ben Finney