Anthony Towns <a...@master.debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 04:19:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> To make this concrete, we had a spat of GRs to decide various technical >> and social issues in Debian some years back, and that practice has died >> out almost completely. I know I at least much prefer the current >> situation to when lots of contentious decisions involved GRs; [...] > Personally, I would put this down to Debian simply not having any > contentious decisions to make. I haven't been following Debian as > closely as I once did, though, so perhaps I just haven't seen them. > I wonder if anyone can name three "big" controversies over the past few > years that have gotten resolved within Debian? Multiarch. (Okay, we're not done yet, but we're a lot of the way along.) The DEP5 copyright format. Build hardening flags. How to implement build-arch (again, not done yet, but we do have a decision that I expect to be implemented shortly). My guess is that at least multiarch and build hardening would have become GRs about five years ago. > The biggest controversies I've seen in Debian have been things like > "when should dpkg multiarch get uploaded to experimental/unstable" > (resolved by a vote though not a GR...), A very non-democratic vote. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k42otq82....@windlord.stanford.edu