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

[Clément Hermann <nodens@nodens.org>]

Hello,

On 03/08/2018 04:23, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Thu 02 Aug 2018 at 12:16PM +0800, Clément Hermann wrote:
> 
>> "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 ?
> 
> Yes.  Let's improve this.
> 
> Would s/maximally// be sufficient?  Or s/maximally/more/ ?
> 

IMO, s/maximally// would definitely fix the most pressing matter here,
that is, the fact that we have incompatible statements. I would
definitely be able to declare the go packages I maintain compliant, for
instance.

However, regarding the rest of the discussion on this bug, I agree more
guidance to the maintainer as to what is expected would be nice. But
that is a separate issue, I think.

How about resolving this one with this simple fix and opening a new one
to discuss making this paragraph better ?

Cheers,

nodens