Bug#944920: Revise terminology used to specify requirements
On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:10:11AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> +The Release Team may, at their discretion, downgrade a Policy requirement
> +to a Policy recommendation for a given release of the Debian distribution.
> +This may be done for only a specific package or for the archive as a
> +whole. This provision is intended to provide flexibility to balance the
> +quality standards of the distribution against the release schedule and the
> +importance of making a stable release.
I don't think this aligns to the current release team practice, which
provides a canonical list of points that are considered policy
requirements:[1]
| The purpose of this document is to be a correct, complete and canonical
| list of issues that merit a "serious" bug under the clause "a severe
| violation of Debian policy".
Bastian
[1]: https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt
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