Bug#776557: debian-policy: Please clarify 2.5 'unix heritage >= important'

[Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>]

Hi,

Martin Zobel-Helas:
> the following sentence in 2.5 leave much room for maneuver, therefor i
> would like to see a clarification how it should be interpreted:
> 
> | Important programs, including those which one would expect to find on
> | any Unix-like system. If the expectation is that an experienced Unix
> | person who found it missing would say "What on earth is going on, where
> | is foo?", it must be an important package.
> 
> Background here is, that i moved the package "ed" to optional years ago,
> and now have bug #776413 open, which disagrees on that move.

Quite frankly, any experienced Unix person who still uses "ed" for, well,
anything at all really, should ask themselves where the hell they've been
during the last 20 years or so.

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-- Matthias Urlichs