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A mechanism for updating Debian Policy documents
Chapter 1 - Introduction, and Administrivia

This document documents the current practice followed in updating Debian Policy documents. This mechanism has been designed for dealing with policy changes that are light weight and can be decided upon within the policy group, by near consensus. In most day-to-day cases, the Policy group should and must be able to conduct Policy discussions and amendments without the intervention of the Technical Committee or other Constitutional issues. Only in cases of extreme dispute (formal objections) should the intervention of Constitutional bodies come into play. In any other situation, the Policy group should be able to conduct business unfettered. A consequence of this goal is that formal objections should not be used lightly, else this mechanism shall be ineffective.

It should be noted that the team responsible for the task of updating policy does not act as author or editor of Policy itself, that is the task of the Debian Policy mailing list.

In the following, the term developer refers to registered Debian developers.

A copy of this document should also be found at http://master.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/

A mechanism for updating Debian Policy documents