-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 30-05-2005 10:17, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I realize that debian-edu-config is something of a special case, because of > its narrow application. I don't think that Debian-Edu should get a free > pass for violating policy, but I also don't think that there's much risk of > this issue affecting people who aren't installing debian-edu explicitly, so > it doesn't seem to make much difference to their net experience whether > deiban-edu-config is allowed in sarge or not. So unless someone else on the > release team objects, I think I'm going to tag this bug sarge-ignore. So for the upgrade path from sarge to etch you want maybe 30+ quite popular packages to weed out bugreports caused by chain-reactions of installing this package? I agree that debian-edu is a special case, but don't see your point in that being a good excuse for ignoring policy: Debian-edu-* packages are expected only to be useful in the Skolelinux Debian-derived distribution. It is a goal of debian-edu to be able to create Skolelinux solely from officially released Debian packages but that goal is not yet reached so a few more packages having to be added unofficially shouldn't be a big deal. What is on the other hand problematic IMHO is that their goal of getting adopted into Debian will be distorted if their packages violates policy: They can truthfully argue that "it is good enough for Debian" while in fact it isn't. I recommend sarge RC policy is respected also for packages not expected to be used in a broader audience. - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCmvFWn7DbMsAkQLgRAnckAJ4mcN+qrcS+Q1lKRRQicNhWxEFKagCfWQ1c RhFbdDGmGoMrx4T5dnSc/9s= =pwu9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
