On Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 10:02:25AM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > 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.
You have my full support. Changes that are unintentionnal, inadvertent or erroneous need to be reverted quickly not to create a precedent, otherwise this jeopardizes the process. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
