Re: dgit advocacy again (Re: Survey results: git packaging practices / repository format)
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> I have said before that I think using "dgit push" (where possible) is
> an ethical imperative. (I should clarify that I *don't* mean that
> people who aren't using "dgit push" yet are bad people. Life is so
> full of ethical imperatives that no real human could meet them all,
> and of course Debian's right to call on volunteer effort is limited.)
Perhaps “ethical imperative” isn't what you mean, then? I understand an
ethical imperative to be instruction demanded ethically (e.g. “don't
trade people as property”). If one fails to dobey an ethical imperative,
one *is* necessarily a bad person.
Certainly I hope you don't consider that anyone who chooses not to use
‘dgit’ is thereby an ethical villain; and so I hope you'll avoid the
term “ethical imperative” for your instruction there.
Your meaning seems better expressed by an “ethical virtue”; some
instruction (e.g. “donate time at a homeless shelter”) which when a
person follows it makes that person praiseworthy, but which we do not
condemn every person who fails to follow it.
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Ben Finney
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