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Re: First draft of review of policy must usage



Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:

> Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 01:03 -0500, Manoj Srivastava a écrit :
>>         Here is a first draft of changes to the policy that I think
>>  are required to bring ot closer in line with extant practice. I
>>  removed portions from the policy that linked policy violations to bug
>>  severities, since this has been deemed controversial and a "bug" in
>>  policy.  Next, I removed the DFSG text and replaced it by a pointer
>>  to the DFSG document itself, this prevents duplication, and I am not
>>  sure I would have remembered to edit it here if we ever changed the
>>  DFSG.
>
> FWIW, I strongly disagree with these changes. The solution is to bring
> the release policy in line with the real policy, not the opposite.

Exactly.

We can't relax Debian Policy to release faster.

I think we are the only people who think like this.

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