Bug#257933: marked as done (debian-policy: "need" is undefined)
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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
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Subject: debian-policy: "need" is undefined
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.1
Severity: minor
The word "need[s]" is used several times in the policy to describe
properties that packages "need" to have and other things. But the
force of this word is not defined. It probably means the same thing as
"must", but that should be explained somewhere.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-586tsc
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro
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Hi,
On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:13:21 +0200, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> said:
> The word "need[s]" is used several times in the policy to describe
> properties that packages "need" to have and other things. But the
> force of this word is not defined. It probably means the same thing
> as "must", but that should be explained somewhere.
No, it does not. The word needs is used strictly in the
dictionary sense, where one needs to specify "need", without making
an infraction a bug, RC or otherwise. In general, if the word is not
specifically defined in the policy document itself, please refer to
your favourite dictionary to determine what it means; and don't
assume any specific policy relevance is attached to it.
(I did go through all the occurances of the word needs in the
document, and I don't think any of them needs be changed to a should
or a must).
manoj
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