Re: Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
The current Policy document defines "should" and "recommended" to mean the
same thing (this sort of surprised me too). We don't really have a lower
level of dictate than "should" right now ("may" means that it's really
entirely at the maintainer's discretion).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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