Re: restructuring debian-policy (was Re: Intended MBF: maintainer scripts not starting on #!)
Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> writes:
> There is a huge backlog of bugs to update policy, most of which are for
> entirely uncontroversial changes.
> If people wanted to do the restructuring work first, all the patches on
> all those bugs would have to be rewritten. Further, it is a waste of
> time restructuring text that will be heavily amended/removed once those
> bugs are dealt with (we're talking basic stuff where policy is just
> ignored because everyone knows it is out-of-date).
> So ideally a sprint would look at that backlog before the
> restructuring. But of course people might not want to work on that,
> which is fair enough.
Yeah, that's always been my thought process too, and then I've never
caught up on the backlog. :) Right now, I haven't had time to even start
the backlog. :(
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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