Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-07 Thread Ian Jackson
Sean Whitton writes ("Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations"): > I'm still inclined to prioritise unblocking people, by giving them a way > of resolving disputes between versions of the document without asking on > d-policy, but let's see. It is the Eng

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-03 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 09:38am -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Section 1.6 of policy is interesting to me for other reasons. Its > function is to make Debian policy usable as a normative document. Indeed. > That leads me in a few directions: > > 1. There is no reason in principle that

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 12:29:50PM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I hereby propose to drop section 1.6 Translations and the following >> sentence: "When translations of this document into languages other >> than English disagree with the English text, the English text

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jan 02, 2019 at 12:29:50PM +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I hereby propose to drop section 1.6 Translations and the following > sentence: "When translations of this document into languages other > than English disagree with the English text, the English text takes > precedence." > > If

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-02 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Ansgar, On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 06:08pm +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I see the review process more as generally agreeing on the change; not > every problem will be caught anyway. We tend to spend about as much time on wordsmithing to avoid misinterpretations, as discussing what the

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-02 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Sean Whitton writes: > On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 12:29pm +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: >> I hereby propose to drop section 1.6 Translations and the following >> sentence: "When translations of this document into languages other >> than English disagree with the English text, the English text takes >>

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-01 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Ansgar, On Wed 02 Jan 2019 at 12:29pm +0900, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > I hereby propose to drop section 1.6 Translations and the following > sentence: "When translations of this document into languages other > than English disagree with the English text, the English text takes >

Bug#917995: debian-policy: drop section 1.6 Translations

2019-01-01 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.3.0.1 Severity: normal Hi, I hereby propose to drop section 1.6 Translations and the following sentence: "When translations of this document into languages other than English disagree with the English text, the English text takes precedence." If it is wrongly