Re: Intent to package: debian-keyring

[Britton <fsblk@aurora.alaska.edu>]

> > maintainance to a single person. Yes, there are several accounting issues
> > that keep coming up, but those are for the individuals actually
> > implimenting a multi-maintainer package to resolve between them.
> > 
> > Personally, I find this dictatorial attitude about Policy as potentially
> > more dangerous than no policy at all.
> 
> Please read my message again more carefully. I only objected to the way
> you treat policy. 
> 
> The reason for our policy is not part of _this_ discussion--it is
> discussed on debian-policy in another thread. The only thing that counts
> in this discussion is that it's *not* up to the maintainer to decide
> whether he/she wants to follow policy or not. 

This may be true, but you should probably figure some other way of saying
it.  Touchy-feely stuff does have it's place, and in my experience (and
I'm sure yours also) statements like the above almost invariably get
someone annoyed.


Britton Kerin


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