Heya, I noticed this bug report and have no interest at all to comment on the issues discussed in this bug log, but there's one point I need to say something about...
Marc Dequènes (Duck) wrote: > Now look at section 1.4 of the policy : > In addition to those, which carry the weight of policy, there is the > Debian Developer's Reference. This document describes procedures and > resources for Debian developers, but it is not normative; rather, it > includes things that don't belong in the Policy, such as best > practices for developers. > > *carry the weight of policy* <-- this means you HAVE TO respect the > procedures, and the NMU procedure was here clearly scorned. Sorry, but that's totally wrong. Just to give a bit of context, for those playing at home: The paragraph Duck quoted from the policy is positioned directly after a list of sub-policies (the perl, emacs, ... policies). This means "those" references the sub-policies listed before. Thus, the first part of the sentence is saying that *the sub-policies carry the weight of the policy*. The developer's reference is *not* normative, everything said there means that you "should do XYZ, in most cases, if you don't know that doing something different is better". Marc -- BOFH #276: U.S. Postal Service
