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From: desultory <desultory@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14
Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2018 03:32:54
Message-Id: b4376cca-0fcd-fee2-8c64-1056cc48fd72@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] Call for agenda items - Council meeting 2018-10-14 by Ulrich Mueller
1 On 10/11/18 13:35, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
2 >>>>>> On Thu, 11 Oct 2018, Alec Warner wrote:
3 >
4 >> My reading of ulm's proposal is that it is allowed.
5 >
6 >> Ebuilds "shall" use the simple attribution, not that they "must" use it.
7 >
8 >> To me that implies the simple attribution should be the default, but the
9 >> complex attribution is acceptable in the ::gentoo repo.
10 >
11 >> Maybe I'm misunderstanding the proposal?
12 >
13 > No, you've understood it exactly how it was meant.
14 >
15 Especially given the audience, "should" would convey that intent more
16 clearly than "shall". [1]
17
18 > Ulrich
19 >
20
21 [1] https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt

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