[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs asciidoc

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Tue May 17 16:55:53 CEST 2011


On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Am 17.05.2011 um 15:39 schrieb Philip Brown:
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:19 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>> Am 28.04.2011 um 22:05 schrieb Philip Brown:
>>>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> wrote:
>>>>> Just a version bump, no relocation of /etc files yet.
>>>>
>>>> and when is that going to happen?
>>>
>>> Probably when I look at it next time.
>>>
>>> This is again a non-policy issue.
>>
>> This is a perfect example of, "not everything is/will be covered in
>> policy explicitly" But it's still a *quality* issue.
>>
>> and, even if it were possible to cover "everything" in policy.. do we
>> really want a policy doc of encyclopaedic length? It would then become
>> worthless, because then no-one would read the whole thing, and noone
>> would use the whole thing anyway.
>
> IMHO we don't want this in the policy. This is more like a thing of
> beauty. The package will work perfectly fine. Fixing this would be
> more like a "tweak".

well how about that.. we are "violently agreeing" :)

Please chime in your voice next time to support me, then, the next
time I tell someone, "no, not EVERYTHING should be in policy" ;-)


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