On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 04:20:29PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote: > > To expand on this. The point of considering bugs that make a package > > completely unusable "grave" is that if a package is *completely* > > unusable, there's no point having it in the archive at all, so we > > shouldn't worry about getting rid of it. If the package is useful, > > but doesn't work for some people, that's not the case, so the "grave" > > severity doesn't apply. OTOH, if it's completely broken on one or two > > entire architectures, it *does* apply: foo_1.2.3-1_powerpc.deb should be > > removed, in the case for example. > You were going to remove the complete package, not only the none-working > parts. Right: that's really my only option; if I remove only bits of it, they'll just get rebuilt by the autobuilders and reuploaded. That's not such a problem when it's a build time bug (which generally means the build'll fail so there won't be anything to upload), but it is when it's a runtime problem (unless the package has some testsuites, of course). *You* (as maintainer) do have the option though. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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