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20.4 Other Tags
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All Policy bugs are additionally categorized by class of bug.

The normative tag is used for bugs that make normative changes to
Policy, meaning that the dictates of Policy will change in some fashion
as part of the resolution of the bug if the proposal is accepted.  The
full process is followed for such bugs.

TAG: normative(1)

The informative tag is used for bugs about wording issues, typos,
informative footnotes, or other changes that do not affect the formal
dictates of Policy, just the presentation.  The same tags are used for
these bugs for convenience, but the Policy maintainers may make
informative changes without following the full process.  Informative
bugs fall under their discretion.

TAG: informative(2)

The packaging tag is used for bugs about the packaging and build process
of the debian-policy Debian package.  These bugs do not follow the
normal process and will not have the other tags except for pending and
wontfix (used with their normal meanings).

TAG: packaging(3)

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   (1) 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=debian-policy&pend-exc=done&tag=normative

   (2) 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=debian-policy&pend-exc=done&tag=informative

   (3) 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=debian-policy&pend-exc=done&tag=packaging