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

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

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.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan