[csw-maintainers] commentary on shared library naming proposal

[Philip Brown]

On 11/16/10, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> No dia 16 de Novembro de 2010 14:19, Sebastian Kayser
> <skayser at opencsw.org> escreveu:
>> * Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
>>> I will also mention, given that Maciej gave the debian sharedlibs
>>> policy (section 8.1) as a reference, if we abided by the WHOLE text of
>>> that section. Again, my further notes on that, are at the bottom of
>>> the wiki page.
>>
>> When it comes to policy vs "when seen beneficial" in this case, I regard
>> it as helpful to have as few exceptions and as much of a standard as
>> possible.
>
> There's also the question of who is the subject to see the benefit.

"The benefit " is supposed to be for the user, not the maintainer OR
the release manager. :)
As far as who determines it before the package is released:
by definition, the person with the most authority to make that
decision, is the release manager.

> Is it the maintainer or the release manager?  What if the two
> disagree?

Ideally, "the maintainer" should respect the release manager's
experience in the matter.
But there's always recourse to the board.