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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Clément Hermann wrote:
> On 03/08/2018 04:23, Sean Whitton wrote:
> > 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.

Ah, thanks!  Sorry to have misunderstood.

I don't believe s/maximally// changes the normative content --- it just
more clearly expresses what it already is saying.  So I think a policy
editor can make that change without waiting for seconds.

Anyway, just in case, seconded.

Thanks,
Jonathan