Bug#203145: (uploaders in control) Any activity?
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:11:52 +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> said:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:45:15PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:01:08PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:54:11PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar
>> > wrote:
>> > > Is there any activity on this issue? I just stubled upon this
>> > > when I needed to know whether a multi-line uploaders was
>> > > okay. Since uploaders isn't in policy at all, this is an
>> > > undecided: I cannot possibly break policy by using something
>> > > undocumented, can I?
>> > >
>> > > In any case, there are multiple packages using a multiline
>> > > uploaders (don't recall my heart which, could checkout if
>> > > needed), and all supporting scripts and katie etc seem to
>> > > support it.
>> > >
>> > > So, I propose to explicitly allow that. It makes it better
>> > > readable for the human eye, and for the computerized eye, it
>> > > doesn't matter. (if it isn't explicitly allowed, it's
>> > > disallowed).
>> >
>> > I tend to agree. Cc'ing bug.
>>
>> We could take the opportunuity to document Uploaders: in policy,
>> since
> Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this bug exactly _about_ documenting
> Uploaders in policy?
Perhaps. But I am missing the ratrionale for the need to
expand policy in this case.
manoj
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