On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 07:09:38PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote: > On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Richard Braakman wrote: [-lc issue]
> Basically, I agree with you. However, I think we should stick to the usual > procedure. That is, we should prepare a policy change which will then be > discussion on debian-policy and included in the next policy weekly posting > for approval. After that, the policy manual is changed and you could start > filing bug reports. IMHO, the link issue itself does not need more discussion; the issue itself has been known for a long time, and nobody has expressed any objections that I can recall. As such, I don't think Richard should wait with filing the bugreports; perhaps he can just put in a "details will soon be available in an upgraded policy document". Perhaps the phrasing of this needs discussion, but not the implementation. Don't get me wrong: in general, I'm very much in favour of discussing things before putting them into policy; just in this case, I think that there is already a concensus, and waiting for it to go into policy officially before submitting bugreports just delays implementation. > Everything else is likely to result into big flame wars. (Maintainers > usually don't like to see bugs reported against their packages unless you > refer to the policy manual :-) Hmmm... I've never felt this way; I do feel free to ignore "bugs" that I don't consider bugs and that don't have to do with policy. Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would have the decency to betray his country. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
