Re: RC bug #308477 and MIA maintainer (?)
* Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> [2005-05-12 19:59] :
> Hi Fred,
>
> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:45:41AM +0200, Frédéric Bothamy wrote:
> > I have recently (3 days ago) reported the RC bug #308477 for the
> > libtextwrap1 package. As I have not received any answer from the
> > maintainer (and there is another older important bug for which he has
> > made no comments), I am wondering if:
>
> > - I am not totally wrong on this bug report (I am still unsure about the
> > "Run-time support programs" of the 8.2 section of Debian Policy)
> > - the maintainer (Tomohiro Kubota) may be MIA (from what I have found
> > using debian.org website, his last message was in august 2004).
>
> > If both conditions are true, the source package libtextwrap would be a
> > good candidate for an NMU (a patch is included in the bug report), but
> > it would definitely need some more testing from a DD (removal is
> > probably not an option as cdebconf depends on it).
>
> You are correct that it is a policy violation. However, not all policy
> violations are release-critical for a given release; see
> <http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt>. In particular, since there
> are no other versions of libtextwrap for us to worry about conflicting with
> this /usr/bin/dotextwrap binary, this bug is not RC for sarge because
> nothing is broken by it in practice. Moving the binary to the -dev package
> can be done just as well post-sarge whenever libtextwrap2 appears, using the
> same Replaces: libtextwrap1 with no ill effects.
Yes, you are right. The exact same solution could be applied later
without any ill effect, I was not sure about that.
Thanks for the explanation.
Fred
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