On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 01:58:14AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I think that tying this to `Debian policy' in this way would be a > mistake. For example, if a package always overwrites the system > timezone information it's definitely unsuitable for release, but it's > not in violation of policy. Doesn't that come under: critical makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or causes serious data loss, or [...] though? If it's a `--force-overwrite' sort of problem (just the same data being included in different packages), that could reasonably be classified as either a policy mistake (although I can't find chapter and verse), or as: grave makes the package in question unuseable or mostly so, [...] at least when dpkg starts defaulting to not overwriting for the freeze/release. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``<dark> Weeks are the same thing as months. That is the secret behind the Debian release schedule.'' -- Richard Braakman, Debian Release Manager
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