Re: Bug#609160: DEP5: CANDIDATE and ready for use in squeeze+1

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

Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:

> There is another reason why I would not support an alignment on the
> Policy's version number: from the begining we promised that DEP-5 was
> not an attempt to modify the Policy.

I don't recall that promise ever being made. Where did you see it?

The promise in the first revision of the wiki page for discussion was
“This is not a proposal to change the policy in the short term.”
<URL:http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat?action=recall&rev=1>

That leaves open, intentionally in my view, the option to become a
proposal to change Policy when it later became appropriate. The DEP
process seems a good route to achieveing that.

> If in a second and separate step there is a consensus for merging, I
> would be very pleased, but I really think that it should be after a
> large number of packages use the DEP, and after parsers produce data
> of which the benefits are widely recognised.

+1 to all that.

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Ben Finney