On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:52:19PM -0400, Glenn Maynard wrote: >... > (GR2004-004 didn't make > any sense at all, nor does it make any sense that Sarge can ship > with non-free documentation, and at the time I found the posts of > the RM on the topic to make no sense at all, but I was satisfied with > the results of GR2004-003 and am able to bear the strangeness of > GR2004-004 for now, since it'll expire on its own.) > > (And if people really are voting for a GR after only reading the title, > I'd be even more disappointed, but I just don't believe that.)
It's funny that out of the five people seconding GR2004-003, the first three did either second or even propose one of the first two suggestions in GR2004-004. If even the Debian developers seconding a GR are supporting changes to the result of this GR only one month later... > In any event, all of this is irrelevant: if people really think that > non-free documentation should be allowed in Debian, propose a GR to > allow it. Nothing short of that will make it so. If people really > think they were "tricked", fine--fix it with another GR. Unless and > until that happens, Debian's position is very clear. In GR2004-004, Proposal D to revert GR2004-003 did get a 2.3:1 majority by the developers over the proposal to keep the changes of GR2004-003. That's a pretty clear statement. The nice thing about 3:1 majorities is, that once you've tricked something as "Editorial amendments" into it, a 25% minority is enough to block reverting it... > Glenn Maynard cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]