Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/986480/
Achieving consensus among Debian Developers on technical topics and
procedures can be, to put it mildly, challenging. Nevertheless, that
is exactly what Otto Kekäläinen has tried to do with a proposal that
would set up “principles all Debian packages should follow to be
“. In the near term,
open for collaboration in package maintenance
it seems unlikely that the proposal will be accepted, but the
discussion may be effective at improving collaboration nonetheless.