On Sun, Nov 16 2008, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le dimanche 16 novembre 2008 à 10:04 -0600, Manoj Srivastava a écrit : >> >> ii Do we allow the Release Team to ignore SC violation bugs: Yes >> > >> > Rationale: with "further discussion" nothing changes. Today RMs are >> > empowered, by delegation, to decide upon transitions and >> > "lenny-ignore" tags. It will be the same tomorrow if "further >> > discussion" wins. >> >> What they are not empowered to do is to decide to release with >> DFSG violations in main. > > Sorry? The release team is empowered to release, and that includes > releasing with some known RC bugs. That’s what they’ve been doing – > including with DFSG-freeness RC bugs – since I have known this project.
> The Social Contract doesn’t say anything about stable releases, nor > about the release team. The interpretation that the release team is > somehow special is your own. The social contract says that the debian system and all its components will be 100% free, free as determined by the dfsg. DFSG says that free means source code. The constitution says that superseding a foundation document needs a 3:1 majority vote, not a handful of people. Downgrading reports of SC violation to ignore and releasing that seems like a weaselly end run around promises we made just for convenience, I am sure that the RMs are not going to stoop to that. manoj -- genlock, n.: Why he stays in the bottle. Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]