On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 10:51:46AM +0900, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > I don't know the point of "must" and "should", since it is > the release manager who decides which bug is RC. It's to prevent severity inflation. It is presumably a bad thing for non-catastrophic violations of policy to result in bug reports of very high severity. One of the editors of the Policy Manual feels quite strongly that the minimum possible severity for a policy violation where Policy uses the terms "must" or "required" -- and that is in fact how the "serious" severity is currently defined in the Debian BTS. http://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2002/debian-ctte-200204/msg00033.html As long as we have other systems that depend on the precise terminology used by the Policy Manual, it behooves us to be careful when employing that terminology in our policy proposals. (I'd add that I think we should be careful anyway.) -- G. Branden Robinson | The greatest productive force is Debian GNU/Linux | human selfishness. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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