Re: Bug#70269: automatic build fails for potato
Josip Rodin wrote:
> The Policy says:
>
> This manual does _not_ describe the technical mechanisms involved in
> package creation, installation, and removal. This information can be
> found in the _Debian Packaging Manual_ and the _Debian System
> Administrators' Manual_.
>
> I read that as "Packaging Manual describes technical mechanisms". Having
> those mechanisms described in a document which the Policy points to, without
> an alternative document about the same thing, kind-of implies that those
> mechanisms are policy.
Well that wording has been there forever, so this cannot be a recent
change in policy, though it could be a change in the way some people
interpret policy.
Of course, it also means that the nonexistent sysadmin manual has the
force of policy. Cool! :-P
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