Steve M. Robbins wrote: > On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 06:59:06PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> The motivation is to put an end to the contrafactual interpretation of this >> clause in Policy that Ben Finney continues to advance in discussions on >> Debian mailing lists. > > Really? The change is aimed to silence one opinion? I'm surprised. Lest I be accused of trying to suppress an opinion: The point is to document consensus (if it exists) that would clear up an ambiguity Ben Finney pointed out. Doesn’t sound so bad to me. > I do understand your point. I accept that there are members of Debian > who subscribe to your interpretation. It may well be that the > original Policy writers also subscribed to your interpretation. I've > only been part of Debian for 9 years, so the discussions around the > policy pre-date me. > > However, I maintain that a Policy interpretation that is not enforced > and not widely subscribed to is not really the Policy. If you are saying debian/copyright is not supposed to contain copyright information, please explain more so we can understand better. Otherwise, please file a new bug; and note that it has already been mentioned by several people that this part of policy seems to need changing. The simplest way to get this done I can think of is to make the appropriate changes bit by bit. I am interested in this particular bug because it establishes a baseline. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
