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Re: Policy as rule of law, or whatever



On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 01:11:31PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> I think my main problem with the `pro-strong-policy' arguments that
> I've been seeing here is that they seem to imply an assumption that
> policy is by definition correct, and that any point where it wasn't
> the relevant policy document maintainer would agree at once.

This seems reasonable. If adopted, can we define policy to be binding
rather than just recommendations/guidelines? I have real trouble
with the idea of a policy which is non-binding (for Debian at least).


Hamish
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