Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?
On Mon, 29 Aug 2016, Dmitrii Kashin wrote:
> If we assume that this precedent allow a maintainer to violate policy,
> so we don't need the Policy anymore.
Violating policy is still a bug; it may be a bug in policy, or a bug in
the package.
> they still continue to rely on Policy to be sure that somebody takes
> care of their interests.
Policy is not a tool to beat developers with; it's a method of
documenting convention so that we can build a distribution of packages
which interact. Like most documentation of convention, it tends to lag
behind when convention changes.
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