[I read the policy mailing list; while you may feel your points are so important that they merit my attention in my personal inbox, there is no need to CC me.] On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:29:49PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > If you're going to do the NMUs anyway, why not just work with the current > policy and file normal bugs against the packages, and then NMU them if they're > not fixed? True enough. I could file bugs and ask people do things without involving policy at all. In fact, perhaps we ought to re-examine why we even have Debian Policy when you can just file bugs and ask people to change things, and then NMU their packages if they don't do it. Hmmmm... > Raising this to a "must" doesn't seem to buy anything at all, at the > risk of declaring packages unsuitable for release for no benefit to > anyone at all. It's clearly of benefit for fonts.dir files to be available for fonts that are unpacked to the system. Otherwise you can install the fonts, but the X server (or font server) don't even see them. Maybe it's just me, but if I install a font package, I'd like those fonts to be available via conventional mechanisms. Perhaps you don't feel as strongly about it. > Alternatively, what benefit would anyone see if dosemu, nethack, etc were > removed from woody tomorrow? Who says they're going to be? Are you going to see to it that they are, as release manager? > Hrm. The shared library libfoo/libfoo-dev/libfoo-bin split stuff is also > just a "should", and it suffers from the fact that if you don't split > them then people won't be able to successfully upgrade when a new version > of the library comes out (they'll be forced to remove the old library, > and thus break any local programs that use it). This has what, exactly, to do with my X policy proposals? I'm getting tired of fighting all the straw men you construct. All it takes for you to jam the brakes on any of my proposals is to reply to them with "I object.", and then I have to go to the technical committee. You don't even have to trouble yourself to come up with a coherent reason why you dislike them. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | Mob rule isn't any prettier just because branden@debian.org | you call your mob a government. http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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