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Bug#489135: developers-reference: uses debian-policy style wording



On Fri, 04 Jul 2008, Bart Martens wrote:
> In my opinion developers-reference should not use must/should/may
> wording, because this makes readers confuse developers-reference with
> debian-policy.

While I agree that we might want to avoid "must", I don't know what words
are left if we can't use "should" to express an advice...

> Please consider rephrasing the must/should/may parts in
> developers-reference to convert these parts to just best-practice
> recommendations.

Please consider digging out the parts where we used "must" and where it's
not backed up by a corresponding debian-policy rule. :)

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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