There hasn’t been much activity lately, but no shortage of interesting and hopefully-accessible Debian Policy work. Do write to debian-policy@lists.debian.org if you’d like to participate but are struggling to figure out how.
Consensus has been reached and help is needed to write a patch:
#425523 Describe error unwind when unpacking a package fails
#452393 Clarify difference between required and important priorities
#582109 document triggers where appropriate
#592610 Clarify when Conflicts + Replaces et al are appropriate
#682347 mark ‘editor’ virtual package name as obsolete
#685506 copyright-format: new Files-Excluded field
#749826 [multiarch] please document the use of Multi-Arch field in debian/c…
#757760 please document build profiles
#770440 policy should mention systemd timers
#823256 Update maintscript arguments with dpkg >= 1.18.5
#905453 Policy does not include a section on NEWS.Debian files
#907051 Say much more about vendoring of libraries
Wording proposed, awaiting review from anyone and/or seconds by DDs:
#786470 [copyright-format] Add an optional “License-Grant” field
#919507 Policy contains no mention of /var/run/reboot-required
#920692 Packages must not install files or directories into /var/cache
#922654 Section 9.1.2 points to a wrong FHS section?