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Re: policy summary



> Get rid of undocumented(7) symlinks (#39830)
>   * Stalled.
>   * Proposed on 20 Jun 1999 by Roland Rosenfeld; seconded by Chris
>     Waters, Chris Lawrence and Raul Miller.
>   * All programs are still required to provide manpages, but
>     undocumented.7 is done away with by this proposal.

I object to this; it provides useful information (i.e. there isn't a
manpage for this, but we know about it), at little cost in terms of
time&disk space.

> Test suite proposal (#41902)
>   * Old.
>   * Proposed by Ian Jackson.
>   * This proposal deals with regression tests for packages. The idea
>     is to make a separate package_version.tests.tar.gz file that
>     contains regression tests. It details what should be in this file
>     and how it works.

I second this.

Matthew

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