Re: Must and should again
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 02:44:26PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 11-Apr-2001 Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > We don't really have any standard way of saying "you really should do
> > this as it's a really good thing to do, but there's no requirement to
> > do so (and hence not a reason to file bug reports)".
> I thought we were using RFC definitions of must and should, and thus 'may'
> follows.
> Must == have to do this
> Should == we recommend you do this
> May == we think it is a good idea, but is not always possible/sane/etc
You can also use words other than must/should/may, or make it conditional.
For example "Package maintainers are encouraged to write test suites for
their package", or "If possible, maintainers should avoid making a package
Build-Depend on itself".
Cheers,
aj
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