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Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential



Hello,

On Mon 23 Mar 2020 at 04:29PM +01, Bill Allombert wrote:

> I do not think this proposal make sense _as a Debian policy change_.
> What I mean is that if the release team decide that some new packages
> need to be marked Essential: yes for some technical reason, then either
> policy will be ignored and this change will be reverted. Or maybe the
> bug will be serious but not RC.
>
> Remember as Manoj used to say, policy is no a stick to beat people with.

I'm inclined to agree with Bill here.

In particular, it is not clear to me we have a project consensus that
the requirement to seek consensus on debian-devel is not sufficient.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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