Robert, I'm not a DD but I have been watching the lists and I think you are flogging a dead horse, one that has been buried in fact. Choose your battles and you'll have more good will when you make constructive proposal and actions post-lenny. As for trying to bully people about consitution and the social contract et al, I think you need to remember that the Debian Project is a concept not an incorporated (or otherwise formally recognized by any government as an organization) body. The 'consitution' and 'social contract' exist only insofar as the developers agree they do, either by action or inaction. If you want to argue constutional matters in debian you have to make sure you're not just making noise but are in fact supported other developers. If most developers think that Bdale's interpretation makes sense then that is what sticks, regardless of what you think the 'rules' say. This isn't like 'real' world government where you take the government to court and force it to do something it doesn't want to do because of the constitution. The bodies that determine what the constitution means (DPL, CTTE(?), etc) are the people you trying to beat over the head with it. I'm not convinced you could even get seconds on a GR regarding this and even if you could all you would do is make the majority of the project (at best) irritated with you. I repeat, pick your battles (actually preferably find a cooperative way of achieving the same goal, say a month after lenny releases). This horse is dead; quit flogging it. -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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