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Re: Alternative proposal: reaffirm maintainers technical competence over the software they maintain



Hi,

Joey Hess:
> Luca Falavigna wrote:
> >   The Technical Committee
> >   decided not to decide about the question of "coupling" i.e. whether
> >   other packages in Debian may depend on a particular init system.
> 
> The tech committe made a separate ruling on this question, and decided:
>   For the record, the TC expects maintainers to continue to support
>   the multiple available init systems in Debian.  That includes
>   merging reasonable contributions, and not reverting existing
>   support without a compelling reason.
> http://bugs.debian.org/746715
> 
> So, your proposal actually overrules this decision of the tech
> committe.
> 
Really? To me, "For the record, the TC expects" does not introduce
a ruling.

It seems to be, rather, a strongly-worded but informal declaration how the
TC is likely to rule, should a maintainer fail to meet this particular
expectation.

-- 
-- Matthias Urlichs

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