On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 04:43:33PM +0100, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hi Kurt, > > Le jeudi, 6 février 2014, 21.19:36 Kurt Roeckx a écrit : > > On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 08:38:25PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > I'm guessing that under you're asking for the interpretation of > > > > > > this in 6.1.1: > > > | In each case the usual maintainer of the relevant software or > > > | documentation makes decisions initially > > > > > > And think that because the policy maintainers didn't try to make > > > any decision yet, the ctte can't make that decisions? > > Yes. I stand to this interpretation, see below. > > > I'm currently of the opinion that gnome made an initial decisions > > and as reaction to that they are setting policy and that this will > > be allowed under 6.1.1. > > Back then, the gnome maintainers added a dependency on another package, > which happened to be providing an /sbin/init. This was allowed by the > Debian Policy of the time as well as by the Debian archive. The > maintainers of the Policy maintainers haven't tried to rule on this at > all since then. How is this matter now magically taken off the Policy > maintainers' hands (while it _is_ a matter of Policy) and become a > matter for the technical committee?
Do you agree that the ctte can decide policy? Under what conditions? I think it all boils down to what "relevant software or documentation" means. > I feel compelled to write that I'm quite concerned to see technical > committee members propose to rule on things they see fit, just because > it's sufficiently important to their eyes. As I detailed in > <1756169.he50hsLr7Y@gyllingar>, I'm quite firmly convinced that any > ruling restricting software dependencies fails §6.1.1 (as the powers > invoked), §6.3.5 and §6.3.6 at this point in time. About detailed design work: You could argue that they proposed the alternative solutions and aren't just deciding between them. As far as I know those proposols come from the ctte itself, in which case it should probably go under 6.1.5 to give advice. About 6.3.6: I think trying to resolve this via consensus failed. Anyway, I'm still not sure. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org