Re: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed

[Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk>]

George Danchev writes ("Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed"):
> If there is no `official policy process' then what justifies the presence of 
> policy-process.sgml and /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy-process.*  
> respectively ?

I assume this is an oversight.

Frank Küster writes ("Official policy process (was: Bug#375502: debian-policy must clarify how sub-policies should be managed)"):
> Is this really true?  Then why hasn't the policy-process document been
> deleted from the binary package?  And why did we see people sending
> "Seconded" messages to this list and counting seconds, without anybody
> calling "Hey guys, this is useless"?

I haven't seen this very much recently and many changes have gone into
debian-policy which weren't done in this way.

Ian.