Bug#207132: debian-policy is missing gcc transition plans
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:44:00AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > I'd rather if we dropped all such transitional issues from the Policy
> > manual. They're just bother and don't really have to be here to be mandated
> > by the project (examples abound -- libc6-migration, fhs migration, C++ 3
> > transition...). The technical committee can make a statement and be done
> > with it.
>
> I'd rather we stopped looking at policy as "mandating things".
> There are three things policy's trying to do at the moment:
>
> 1) specify technical standards, like version formats and package
> names
>
> 2) specify packaging and coding best practices
>
> 3) specify release requirements
I agree. However, the language used in the Policy Manual, and the
organization of the manual itself (or lack thereof) is not necessarily
appropriate for all of these issues.
The document is right now used to mandate things, and obviously this
creates problems when some things shouldn't be handled in that manner.
I filed several bugs about it, not all of which are resolved yet...
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