Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:03:09PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> (We unfortunately don't have good language for this in Policy. Right >> now, the must/should distinction conflates two things: severity, and >> certainty. We used to have the same problem in Lintian and explicitly >> split severity and certainty so that we could talk about them >> independently. > wow. I'd be hoping that this is fixable in policy too… Policy is currently written like a normal instruction manual. This has a lot of real merit, but for quite some time I've thought that it may be worth the effort to figure out how to structure it in a somewhat more formal way, so that each requirement is clearly spelled out as a requirement with both severity and certainty noted. It would eliminate a lot of ambiguity that comes from trying to draft rules in free-form text. Of course, then I started running short on time to spend on such grand, sweeping projects. :( -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
