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Re: Bug#38612: PROPOSED] Have proposal-submitting guidelines in policy package



> On Mon, 31 May 1999 at 14:47, Santiago Vila wrote about "Bug#38612:...":
> 
> > > Package: debian-policy
> > > Version: 2.5.0.0
> > > Severity: wishlist
> > > 
> > > It would make a lot of sense if Manoj's proposal-submitting guidelines
> > > were to be placed in the debian-policy package and referred to by the
> > > policy (section 1.3).  (And the guidelines should also be modified to
> > > include Manoj's recent postings about the use of the BTS to facilitate
> > > tracking proposals, and also perhaps a pointer to Joey's weekly policy
> > > summary page.)
> 
> Does this mean that the "proposal-submitting guidelines" will not become
> part of the policy itself? I think that should be done, as it makes them
> official and allow for them to be changed officially as policy would
> dictate (fine, it would dictate itself how it would change itself, but
> that's fine; governments work that way, we can as well) ;-)

I'd second having it a part of policy, but only if Manoj proposes it:
until he's happy with it becoming policy, it wouldn't make sense to
propose that it should be.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg


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