On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 12:02:11AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi Elana, > > Elana Hashman wrote: > > > NEWS.Debian files are listed in the "unofficial policy"[1] but not in > > the official policy. > > > > It seems this was proposed in 2002[2], but in 2003, folks were > > hesitant to "[get] this into policy until enough stuff uses it that we > > can tell it works well". > > > > Is 15 years long enough? Can we make this official? > > It would be a welcome addition! Do you have ideas for wording? > The section in Developer's reference looks good to me, and the only nitpits I have with are a couple of grammar issues. If no one has any objections I'd be happy to copy move the section, properly attribute its author, resolve these issues. One thing I'm not sure about is what Policy section it would go in. Would it be appended to §4 as §4.18, or something else? Best, Nicholas
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