On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:51:19AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > I never saw this get pushed into policy, joeyh just decided to stop > doing it in debhelper.
Joey is cutting the Policy Manual's Gordian Knot. That being the conjunction of "policy-is-supposed-to-document-current-practice, not-be-used-as-a-stick-to-beat-maintainers-with" and "policy-reigns-supreme-and-violating-a-must-or-must-not-directive-means- your-package-is-obscenely-broken-and-should-be-removed-from-the- distribution". -- G. Branden Robinson | Never underestimate the power of Debian GNU/Linux | human stupidity. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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