Re: Bug #135368

[Peter Crystal <darke@debian.org>]

> At issue is the suitability of Debian packages to be installed on
> machines where children have access.  Hopefully this will be something
> that "someone" on this list can manage to effectively communicate, prior
> to Woody's release.  All I seem to have elicited is excessive
> potty-mouth on the part of some of the more <cough> "mature" Debian
> developers.
> 
> Ben, you've addressed similar on this list before, how about it?  Anyone
> else?  Is there a suitable means to get this message across to the
> Developers in a manner they will comply with?
> 
> How to get this RC priority without some "genius" deciding it's not
> important and downgrading it?  Ben?
> 


The biggest issue as one of the developers noted, Changelogs can not
be retroactively edited. Its against policies and the terms of
the GPL amongst other things. 

The best that can be honestly hoped for is a future set of changelog
entries that are more civil.

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Peter 'darkewolf' Crystal