Re: First draft of review of policy must usage
sean finney <seanius@seanius.net> writes:
> On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 03:07 -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>> What's the importance of Debian Policy if RM team can do whatever they
>> want? How we can ensure that Debian has the minimal quality when it's
>> get release?
>
> the change would make it reflect the fact that this is already the
> reality--that yes packages that do not comply with policy are allowed in
> a stable release etc. we then put a certain level of trust in the RM's
> that they won't abuse this (we are already doing this too).
Doing that we just lose the meaning of have something like Debian
Policy.
Why RM team wouldn't use it to meet the deadline and reducing the
overall quality of release?
Take http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2006/10/msg00177.html as
example. I fail to see why it's not a RC bug.
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