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= Whacky Ideas For New Policies =

This is an ideas pool for future policies that are not currently implemented. These ideas are not currently implemented and are not part of official Debian policy.

== Proposed Error Documentation Policy ==

==== Documentation of Causes and Resolutions ====

This policy would create a requirement for any error messages produced by an application to be documented together with causes and resolutions where possible.

==== Maintaining a comprehensive list of error messages ====

Under this policy, documentation relating to all error messages would be available, and a complete alphanumerical list of error messages would be maintained in a centralized location.

== Proposed Colour freedom policy ==

Under this policy the colour of any graphically displayed system component could be changed by the user.

== Proposed etc directory policy ==

Under this policy the /etc directory would contain only human readable files in standard configuration file format, and symlinks to binary files would be relocated.

== Proposed Hyphen switch policy ==

Under this policy a single hyphen presented as a command line argument is treated as an end of switches marker, allowing all subsequent arguments to be treated as parameter data.

== Proposed Package building policy ==

== Proposed Source existence policy ==

== Note ==

'''Before you put your random idea here''', make sure that :
 * You are actually willing to '''do the work __your self__''', to get your idea through. Do you have spare time ? (search for the word "proposal" in Debian mailing lists).
 * The Policy can actually be enforced at Debian level. (Debian isn't just going to ''ask'' the whole open source community to do something according to Debian's policy).