Bug#587279: debian-policy: section 2.2.1 needs some tweaking
Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> writes:
> The important consequence of a potential policy change/clarification
> here, is that pushing these oddballs out of main solves all of the
> problems: security authenticity/integrity, non-freeness, brokenness,
> trustworthiness, etc. They're all good qualities that would be achieved
> via modest policy clarification, and would clearly (in my opinion) make
> main better. That's why I still think this concept is worth pursuing
> and contemplating a bit more, even if it does have the downside that it
> will cause a bit of pain in a few packages.
Oh, okay, well, that's a different goal. That is *definitely* not a
"modest policy clarification"; that's a substantial change to Debian
archive policy, probably rising to the GR level.
If you want to pursue that, please open a separate Policy bug at the very
least, and I suspect you will need to start with a GR; I think it will
require a GR to reject from main packages that install unsigned code.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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