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

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