Re: X is now broken, unbreak?

["David A. Greene" <greened@eecs.umich.edu>]

Nate Smith wrote:


> > It breaks startup for the vast majority of X installations for no
> > reason.  It does not seem entirely unreasonable to describe a bug like
> > that as release critical.
>
> I guess it would come down to who is classifying things as 'critical', 
> 'normal', etc... Personally I think that that is just an annoyance, 
> you'd be misleading people into thinking that something awful would
> happen if they didn't upgrade RIGHT NOW, making modem users tie up their
> modem for 1/2 hour to fix something that they could fix with vi.

Release critical.  Debian does not want to release X in a state where

it cannot start under some common configurations.  Therefore, this is
a RC bug.  This has absolutely nothing to do with upgrading or
modem connections.  It has everything to do with releasing a stable
and useable product.

                            -Dave

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