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Bug#930666: Please document consensus on use of dh sequencer



Hello,

On Fri 21 Jun 2019 at 01:09PM +01, Sean Whitton wrote:

>     packaging helper might want to use their new tool.  The
>     recommendation to use ``dh`` does not always apply, and use of
>     ``dh`` is therefore not required.
>
> - saying that use of ``dh`` is "not required" is strictly redundant
>   because 'required' is equivalent to 'must', and nothing in the
>   previous paragraph says that you must use dh
>
>   - I think I avoid any chance of misreading by reiterating that the
>     recommendation has exceptions

Drop the final 'therefore' from my text, because the fact that it is not
a requirement is not a consequence of the fact that the recommendation
has exceptions.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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