Re: Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:39:21 -0700, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> said:
> Joey had reported at the time that most programs in Debian had moved
> to using sensible-browser or honoring BROWSER, but that was some time
> ago and the archive has moved on since then. I'm not sure (outside of
> the desktop environments, which have their own way of handling this)
> how many of the random programs in Debian use BROWSER (or even a good
> way of checking).
Well, we can make this a recommendation, with a warning in a
footnote that this directive will become a should when lenny is
released, and make the same not in the upgrading checklist.
I would like to see this directive in policy, it has been a long
time coming, and if there are no concerns or push back on it as a
recommendation, it will migrate to a real rule.
I think that is the best, and fastest way of moving forward on
this, without making too many packages insta buggy (if we were sure
that the number of packages affected is very small, I think we can move
ahead faster)
manoj
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Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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