Bug#1011716: libbluray: continue to FTBFS and VLC crash in stable
Hi
On 2022-09-21 10:13:42 -0500, Christian Barcenas wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I am not an expert on Debian policy, so the following may be incorrect,
> but this was my reasoning for re-opening the bug:
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 2:21 AM Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
> > Please don't reopen it. We have version tracking to track this kind of
> > thinks. For the bullseye version, the bug was still open. Reclosing.
>
> As far as I can see, this issue is fixed in bookworm because 1:1.3.2-1
> has an upstream fix, there is no fix at all to this issue in
> stable 1:1.2.1-4+deb11u1.
>
> Aren't FTBFS, and other critical software bugs that prevent runtime
> use of the library entirely, considered a serious Debian policy violation
> that should be fixed with an upload to stable-proposed-updates?
Yes, that's all correct. But as you can see from the version graph at
the top of the bug report at https://bugs.debian.org/1011716, the
version in stable is not marked as fixed. There is no need to reopen
this bug report because it is still open in stable.
Cheers
--
Sebastian Ramacher
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