Am 2017-12-08 21:31, schrieb Gene Heskett:
On Friday 08 December 2017 14:26:41 Jonathan Dowland wrote:No objection there, and I agree that the release notes should probably have covered the policy changes. That ship has now sailed unfortunately.So now, no effort will ever be made to fix the man pages. Hell of a way to run a train.
If you want to update the release notes, please file a bug against the 'release-notes' pseudo-package, ideally (but not necessarily) with the proposed wording change. (But please also check if someone else has already done so, so you don't cause a duplicate.) It _is_ possible to update the release notes after the fact; see e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/865632 for something that was added after the release of Stretch. (And there are other examples, see https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/ddp/manuals/trunk/release-notes/en/ for a full history of what has been changed in the release notes of Stretch so far, both before and after the release.) Regards, Christian