Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Ansgar" == Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> writes:

    Ansgar> Russ Allbery writes:
    >> Matthias Klumpp writes:
    >>> With two Debian stable releases defaulting to systemd now, I
    >>> think a solid case could be made to at least relax the "must"
    >>> requirement to a "should" in policy (but that should better go
    >>> to the respective bug report).
    >> 
    >> The Policy process is not equipped to deal with this because that
    >> process requires fairly consensus, and I don't believe that's
    >> possible to reach on this topic.

    Ansgar> If we have no consensus that doing something is the right
    Ansgar> thing, then lintian should probably not start raising a
    Ansgar> warning about it and one should keep in mind that Policy
    Ansgar> might not reflect consensus when referring to it.

When the policy decision was made, I think we did have consensus.

So, no, that's our current policy at least until something changes it.
The processes I'm aware of for changing policy absent a consensus to do
so are GR and TC.

--Sam