Here’s a summary of some of the bugs against the Debian Policy Manual that are thought to be easy to resolve.

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#152955 force-reload should not start the daemon if it is not running

#172436 BROWSER and sensible-browser standardization

#188731 Also strip .comment and .note sections

#212814 Clarify relationship between long and short description

#273093 document interactions of multiple clashing package diversions

#314808 Web applications should use /usr/share/package, not /usr/share/doc/package

#348336 Clarify Policy around shared configuration files

#425523 Describe error unwind when unpacking a package fails

#491647 debian-policy: X font policy unclear around TTF fonts

#495233 debian-policy: README.source content should be more detailed

#649679 [copyright-format] Clarify what distinguishes files and stand-alone license paragraphs.

#682347 mark ‘editor’ virtual package name as obsolete

#685506 copyright-format: new Files-Excluded field

#685746 debian-policy Consider clarifying the use of recommends

#694883 copyright-format: please clarify the recommended form for public domain files

#696185 [copyright-format] Use short names from SPDX.

#697039 expand cron and init requirement to check binary existence to other scripts

#722535 debian-policy: To document: the “Binary-Only” field in Debian changes files.

#759316 Document the use of /etc/default for cron jobs

#770440 debian-policy: policy should mention systemd timers

#780725 PATH used for building is not specified

#794653 Recommend use of dpkg-maintscript-helper where appropriate

#809637 DEP-5 does not support filenames with blanks

#824495 debian-policy: Source packages “can” declare relationships

#833401 debian-policy: virtual packages: dbus-session-bus, dbus-default-session-bus

#845715 debian-policy: Please document that packages are not allowed to write outside their source directories

#850171 debian-policy: Addition of having an ‘EXAMPLES’ section in manual pages debian policy 12.1

#853779 debian-policy: Clarify requirements about update-rc.d and invoke-rc.d usage in maintainer scripts

#904248 Add netbase to build-essential

Aristotle’s distinction in EN between brutishness and vice might be comparable to the distinction in Dungeons & Dragons between chaotic evil and lawful evil, respectively.

I’ve always thought that the forces of lawful evil are more deeply threatening than those of chaotic evil. In the Critical Hit podcast, lawful evil is equated with tyranny.

Of course, at least how I run it, Aristotelian ethics involves no notion of evil, only mistakes about the good.