Bug#905251: debian-policy: 4.9 paragraph is unclear (incompatibles statements)

[Clément Hermann <nodens@nodens.org>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.2.0.0
Severity: normal

Hi,

4.9 states:
    The package build should be as verbose as reasonably possible.
    This means that ``debian/rules`` should pass to the commands it
    invokes options that cause them to produce maximally verbose
    output.

"as verbose as reasonably possible" seems incompatible with "maximally verbose
output", at least in some cases (golang packages come to mind).

Would it be possible to clarify this ?

Cheers,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages debian-policy depends on:
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc  1.7.6-1

debian-policy recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
ii  doc-base  0.10.8

-- no debconf information