On Tue, 13 Nov 2018, Ian Jackson wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 4.2.1.4 > > The discussion in #913572 is just another instance of the following > antipattern: > > Submitter: program X does strange thing Y which is undesirable > Maintainer: Y is not against policy > > I suggest adding something like this to s1.1, "Scope", as a new 3rd > paragraph: > > This manual cannot and does not prohibit every possible bug or > undesirable behaviour. The fact that something is not forbidden by > Debian policy does not mean that it is not a bug, let alone that it > is desirable. Questions not covered by policy should be evaluated > on their merits. Seconded. How about also adding one that makes it clear that in *Debian*, policy follows practice, and not the other way around (which should also require seconds just to make sure people agree with this, even if it is a decades-long practice in debian-policy)... -- Henrique Holschuh
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