Re: Non-Constitutional Voting Procedure

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@progenylinux.com>]

Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:

> Indeed, the Social Contract is "a document that defines Debian's relationship
> with other free software entitites and describes the goals of the project."
> However, the above quoted section does not refer to the modification
> of existing documents or revoking existing documents, only to the issuing 
> of documents.

I hear a lot of this.  It is widely accepted that "issue" encompasses
"modify".  Why?  Well, the power to issue documents also includes the
power to issue documents that declare previous ones obsolete and new
ones to take their place -- hence, a modification.

However, I agree there is some ground for question here.

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