Hi,

The vote has run for a week, and the winner is option C:

"""
In Bug #1084924, the Technical Committee was asked about a mass bug
filing that aimed to remove all dependencies (except Provides: and
Conflicts:) upon the system-log-daemon virtual package. Whilst the
wording of policy in this area is unclear, the Technical Committee notes
that long-standing practice in this area as reflected by policy was that packages could declare appropriate dependencies upon the
system-log-daemon virtual package. The Technical Committee also
acknowledges that on systemd systems, journald can serve the purpose of system-log-daemon, but that systemd also supports installing a separate system-log-daemon.

The Technical Committee resolves that this is a de facto attempt to
change Policy, and that the Policy process should be used to consider
whether to change Policy relating to system-log-daemon from the status
quo of packages being able to declare any reasonable dependency upon system-log-daemon to the state where only Provides: and Conflicts: may
be used. Until that process is concluded, dependencies upon the system-log-daemon should not be removed (unless they are incorrect on
the merits of an individual case).
"""

We should probably email interested parties in the new year.

Voting machinery output:

Starting results calculation at Fri Dec 27 15:59:31 2024

/--ABCDN
V: 14253 matthew
V: 3212- myon
V: 41342 helmut
V: 24143 spwhitton
V: 41532 stefanor
Option A "Dependencies on s-l-d are OK"
Option B "Provides & Conflicts only"
Option C "Defer to policy"
Option D "s-l-ds should co-exist"
Option N "None of the above"

In the following table, tally[row x][col y] represents the votes that
option x received over option y.

Option
A B C D N
=== === === === ===
Option A 2 2 2 3
Option B 3 2 3 3
Option C 3 3 4 3
Option D 2 0 1 1
Option N 2 2 2 4



Looking at row 2, column 1, B
received 3 votes over A

Looking at row 1, column 2, A
received 2 votes over B.

Option A Reached quorum: 3 >= 2
Option B Reached quorum: 3 >= 2
Option C Reached quorum: 3 >= 2
Dropping Option D "s-l-ds should co-exist" because of Quorum (2 > 1)


Option A passes Majority. 1.500 (3/2) > 1
Option B passes Majority. 1.500 (3/2) > 1
Option C passes Majority. 1.500 (3/2) > 1


Option B defeats Option A by ( 3 - 2) = 1 votes.
Option C defeats Option A by ( 3 - 2) = 1 votes.
Option A defeats Option N by ( 3 - 2) = 1 votes.
Option C defeats Option B by ( 3 - 2) = 1 votes.
Option B defeats Option N by ( 3 - 2) = 1 votes.
Option C defeats Option N by ( 3 - 2) = 1 votes.


The Schwartz Set contains:
Option C "Defer to policy"



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The winners are:
Option C "Defer to policy"

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Regards,

Matthew

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