Re: mass bug gnustep programs: policy violation
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:28:06 -0700, Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org> said:
> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:15:20 +0200, Andreas Barth
>> <aba@not.so.argh.org> said:
>>
>>> This is exactly what's keeping sarge non-releasable: We change
>>> core functionality far too often. _Please_ don't do it. Please
>>> just accept that we are near a release, and that we don't want to
>>> change basic functionality now.
>>
>> Hopefully the desire to release immediately has not thrown every
>> other consideration out of the window, like standards conformance,
>> quality, and policy compliance, and so on, that makes Debian a
>> desirable OS.
>>
>> We used to not release until we were ready. And this violation of
>> the FHS seems like an indication that perhaps gnustep packages are
>> not yet ready -- do you have any arguments as to why we must
>> release these packages before they match our policies?
> Because they've been packaged this way for a long time and work the
> way they are now?
A long standing bug is nevertheless a bug.
manoj
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