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Bug#849851: [debian-policy] Document that rules clean target is not sufficient for removing dfsg problems



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On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 02:40:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Well, if it's a common-enough error, I think there's no problem with also
> mentioning this in the section on the clean rule.  It's not likely that
> this interpretation is going to change.

Okay.

> I'm on a war against footnotes in Policy because I think they make it much
> harder to read (particularly in text form, particularly with DocBook which
> now moves all the footnotes to the end of the chapter).  I'd love to move
> them all to either inline text or sidebars of some kind, although that's
> going to be a long effort.
> 
> s/should not/cannot/ (to get away from using standards language here and
> because this isn't a Policy statement so much as a statement of
> capability), and I would say "repacked to remove those files" in the last
> sentence, but otherwise this looks good to me and could just be included
> directly in that section on clean, I think.

I don't have an informed opinion on footnotes, but thinking again, this
change would be fine inline with the s/should not/cannot/ change.

Since this is informative rather than normative, I've gone ahead and
applied the change.  Thank you for your review.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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