On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:55:18PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:30:36 +1000 Anthony Towns wrote: > > And I mean, I know what a GR is for, why are you telling me? It's > > still not a *good solution* for deciding these things; it's a last > > resort, and the only other options we currently have a "ftpmaster > > decides" and "it's obvious to pretty much everybody". > I'm rather surprised to hear you saying that, since you seem to have > been the proposer of GR-2006-001... Sometimes you have to choose the best of a lot of bad options. When that happens, it's often good to spend some time trying to get better options for the future. > [...] > > The official position of Debian is what we allow in main. > That is to say? Bugs never happen?!? Nothing can possibly enter main > by mistake or overlook?!? Of course it can -- official positions can be wrong, can be made by mistake or without due care, and can be changed. > [...] > > Unfortunately, since "-legal in general" becomes an amorphous set of > > individuals who reserve the right to hold whatever opinions they like > > whenever questioned, there's little hope of -legal ever learning from > > its mistakes. > Are you going to call the orwellian thought police, since I hold my > *own* opinions?!? You don't need to call the thought police, you only have to think of them and they'll know to come! Cheers, aj
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