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20.1 Introduction
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To introduce a change in the current Debian Policy, the change proposal
has to go through a certain process.  (1)

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   (1) This process was originally developed by Margarita Manterola,
Clint Adams, Russ Allbery and Manoj Srivastava.  In 2017, Sean Whitton
deprecated the ‘issue’ usertag and added use of the ‘moreinfo’ tag,
after discussions at DebConf17.