Re: Bug#552576: live-installer: no-standards-version-field
On Sun, Nov 01 2009, Steve Langasek wrote:
> severity 552576 important
> thanks
>
> On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:15:01AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> A missing standards version is a violation of a Should directive in
>> policy, and normally would be filed as important.
>
>> Filed as serious, since a package with these files will currently get
>> this package rejected. See
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00004.html
>> for details. This means the package has been deemed too buggy to be in
>> Debian.
>
> It has been deemed "too buggy to be in Debian" by the ftp team, who don't
> have the authority to make such determinations on their own.
Doesn't the ftp team have authority over determining what goes
into the archive? I would have thought so, given that they bear the
(legal) brunt of any fallout from mistakes made there.
> Downgrading this bug; I have requested that the ftp team remove these
> overreaching archive checks that have no basis in Policy's
> requirements, and intend to follow up with a GR if necessary.
I think this degrades the quality of implementation, and given
that only three packages have this, it should be easy enough to fix.
Less time would be spent fixing these issues than draging on a fight in
a GR, and while I applaud rules lawyering as much as the next guy, I
think it would be simpler, and better for Debian, to just get the
frakking thing fixed.
manoj
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