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voted guidelines or whim? (was Re: Project leader's final word on the "purity" issue)



On Mon, 1 Dec 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:

> So what if Debian is free -- that criterion is absolutely independent
> of good taste.
>
> As the editor of the project effectively, Bruce has to make sure that
> everything in the distribution is suitable. In this case, he felt that
> it wasn't. You claim it's censorship, but just like Bruce said, it's
> editorial judgement, not censorship. Bruce has said that he supports
> your right to have and to distribute the material, but sees no reason
> why we should distribute it. I agree with him.

there's a VERY important point/principle which you appear to be missing. 

Until bruce's unilateral decision earlier today, the ONLY criteria for a
package getting into debian was whether it met the requirements of the
DFSG or not. if it was free, it was included. if non-free or dependant on
non-free, it could go into either contrib or non-free or nowhere. 

now, new packages have to meet bruce's personal approval. 

this is bad, regardless of how good (or bad) bruce is at making such
decisions. until today, we had a clear set of guidelines VOTED ON by all
of us.  Now we have one person's whim. 

i know what i prefer. 

this has nothing to do with personalities - for the most part, i tend to
agree with bruce's decisions - this is far more important than
personalities.  Are we to stick to the guidelines we developed earlier
this year from several years of experience and established procedures, or
do we override all that with one person's whim? 

craig


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