On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 10:10:11AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > +The Release Team may, at their discretion, downgrade a Policy requirement > +to a Policy recommendation for a given release of the Debian distribution. > +This may be done for only a specific package or for the archive as a > +whole. This provision is intended to provide flexibility to balance the > +quality standards of the distribution against the release schedule and the > +importance of making a stable release.
I don't think this aligns to the current release team practice, which provides a canonical list of points that are considered policy requirements:[1] | The purpose of this document is to be a correct, complete and canonical | list of issues that merit a "serious" bug under the clause "a severe | violation of Debian policy". Bastian [1]: https://release.debian.org/bullseye/rc_policy.txt -- It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable. -- Spock, "The Enterprise Incident", stardate 5027.3