Bug#707851: Debian Menu Systems : Implementation of the TC decision

[Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

Le mardi, 22 septembre 2015, 13.47:31 Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Le Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 11:27:53AM -0400, Sam Hartman a écrit :
> > Hi.  I've been debating how to respond to the shall vs must thing. 
> > The short answer is that there are reasons why you might prefer
> > shall, but I find that I'd rather say "must is good enough," than
> > try and come up with an articulate presentation of the energy which
> > would conclude by saying that if must still seemed like the right
> > choice go with it.
> > 
> > So,  I'm fine with s/shall/must.
> 
> Thanks Sam,
> 
> the word "shall" appears only once in the Policy (quoted below), so I
> think that avoiding it is consistent with the Policy's style.
> 
>    If the package is <strong>architecture: any</strong>, then
>    the shared library compilation and linking flags must have
>    <tt>-fPIC</tt>, or the package shall not build on some of
>    the supported architectures
> 
> I still have commit priviledges on the Policy's Git repository on
> Alioth, so if the Policy Editors are busy, I can implement the TC's
> decision.

For what I'm concerned, at least for the "cherry-picking" part of the TC 
decision, please go ahead.

Cheers,
OdyX