Hello, On Thu 27 Feb 2025 at 06:52am -05, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM Sean Whitton <spwhit...@spwhitton.name> wrote: >> Therefore I am seeking seconds for the following patch. > > Sean, I appreciate the work you do on Debian Policy. I can understand > your desire to want to quickly release a hotfix because the effects of > 4.7.1 were more disruptive than you intended. In this case, you got 3 > "seconds" which is great, but I believe there were also multiple > people replying here that Policy didn't need to be reverted. So I was > surprised to see 4.7.2 announced so quickly but apparently after you > had already seen replies against your proposal. > > Maybe it's not that big of a deal and we can expect a version of the > 4.7.1 Policy wording to be restored soon after Trixie is released. And > maybe it is appropriate for the Policy Editor to quickly and > decisively act since we're late in this release cycle. Yes, this is all correct. I was exercising my authority as DPL Delegate to go ahead and undo the change quickly despite opposition, because I saw the violation of procedural norms to be so significant. Thank you for your message, and I too hope this text will not stick around for too long. -- Sean Whitton
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