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Author: Hendrik Boom
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Subject: Re: [DNG] Ugly, ugly news
On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 10:05:20AM +0000, hellekin wrote:
>
> Joey Hess in his departing email mentioned that The Debian Constitution
> "is a toxic document" [0], although he didn't say why exactly (and
> didn't reply to my inquiry about it so far, which I can understand.)
>
> Nevertheless, I think that if the part saying "users before all" was
> actually followed, Devuan probably would not exist now.
>
> I'm very much concerned that our own Devuan Constitution inherit the
> "toxicity" that Joey Hess interpreted in the Debian Constitution, and
> that's why I drafted one that departs from Debian's (although I cannot
> be certain of its lack of toxicity.)


Can we get Joey Hess to review it?

-- hendrik

Nevertheless, the discussion so
> far was avoided, which is not to say we should have it now. As the
> Shadoks say: "if there's a problem, there's a solution. If there's no
> solution, then there's no problem."
>
> Cheers,
>
> ==
> hk
>
> [0]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html
>
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