On the bug: #479080 Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jun 2008 21:40:04 +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> said:I think policy should include a incomplete list of "essential" package, because of the "side effect" (no dependencies on essential package).No, this decision should remain with the ftp-masters, not hard coded into policy.
I've two commentaries. "hard coded into policy" seems to me to strong. I don't think policy should be written in stone. But my main commentary is about ftp-master "policies". I agree that ftp-masters have rule power on copyright, structure of archive, essential packages, etc. , but I like that the documentation is included in the policy package. From a user (developer) point of view, it is a lot better to have the policies in one place, and possibily without searching the web. BTW and we have already a virtual-package-names-list.txt.gz and a lot of specific policies. So I would like to have a essential-package-names-list.txt.gz, and an archive-policy with section rule and copyright rules directly from the ftp-masters. What do you things? ciao cate