Re: Procedure to add sub-policies
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org (va, manoj)> wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:44:28 +0200, Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> said:
>
>> Hi, is there an established procedure on adding sub-policies (like
>> the existing menu or mime sub-policies)? Should they live in one of
>> the involved packages for a while (like the emacsen policy, and show
>> that they work) before being formally declared, or should they be
>> treated just as any request to change the Policy?
>
>> I am asking because we have drafted a Debian TeX Policy document¹
>> and are thinking how to proceed.
>
> The general convention has been to put the draft policy in a
> related package, preferably one that a number of others depend upon,
> and try and get the relevant packages to conform to the policy;
Thank you. So'll you'll probably not hear from us the next couple of
months; have a nice time ;-)
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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