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Bug#728200: debian-policy: force build tools to ensure source trees are build-ready



On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 02:46:17PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Nov 2013, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Such policy change should have been proposed before --commit was implemented.
> > dpkg is supposed to follow policy not the other way round.
> 
> No, the policy doesn't dictate everything top-down. Large part of it are
> built on top of existing practices that it merely formalizes.

But this change was breaking existing practice.

> This change was discussed on -devel. Please stop looking for problems
> where there are none.
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/20110529085303.GA17707@rivendell.home.ouaza.com

But then why did not you CC debian-policy ?

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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