Bug#913659: marked as done (Document that not all bugs are policy violations)
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regarding Document that not all bugs are policy violations
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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.
Ian.
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Source: debian-policy
Source-Version: 4.2.1.5
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 913659@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> (supplier of updated debian-policy package)
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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 09:36:39 -0700
Source: debian-policy
Binary: debian-policy debian-policy-ja
Architecture: source
Version: 4.2.1.5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Description:
debian-policy - Debian Policy Manual and related documents
debian-policy-ja - Debian Policy Manual and related documents (Japanese)
Closes: 824495 913295 913659
Changes:
debian-policy (4.2.1.5) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Add references to 'next' branch in README.md.
* Replace a 'can' with a 'may' for readability in 7.7 (Closes: #824495).
Thanks to Santiago Vila for reporting the problem.
* Update location of sample init.d script (Closes: #913295).
Thanks to Dmitry Bogatov for the patch.
* Document in 1.1 that not all bugs are Policy violations (Closes: #913659).
Thanks to Ian Jackson for the patch.
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