Bug#64437: PROPOSED] Must/Should/May in policy

[Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org>]

I second this proposal.  I also suggest the following changes, but won't
retract my second if they are not made.

On 21-May-00, 04:01 (CDT), Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: 
>  	    <item>
>  	      <p>
> -		must meet all policy requirements presented in this
> +		should meet all policy requirements presented in this
>  		manual.
>  	      </p>

This should be worded along the lines of "...presented in the version
of the this manual recorded in the "Standards-Version:" field in the
control file."

>  	<p>
> -	  Packages may not depend on packages with lower priority
> +	  Packages should not depend on packages with lower priority
               ^^^^^^
>  	  values (excluding build-time dependencies).  If this does
> -	  happen, one of the priority values will have to be adapted.
> +	  happen, one of the priority values must be adapted.


Why isn't that a "must"? 


Steve