Re: Bug mass filling

[Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org>]

* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe (tshepang@gmail.com) [061019 18:09]:
> On 10/19/06, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> >
> >[Aurelien Jarno]
> >> I have just run lintian on all the archive (amd64) for both binaries and
> >> sources, and the results are a bit scary. It looks like a lot of
> >> maintainers are uploading their packages, and don't really care with the
> >> policy.
> >
> >What is the technical problem triggered by the packages with this
> >lintian message?  Is the autobuilders able to build these packages?
> >If the autobuilders fail, I recommend you report that as a important
> >or serious problem, and it it isn't, I recommend you report it as a
> >normal bug.
> 
> Doesn't policy violation warrant Critical severity?

No. Please see the top of http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt
for which bugs are critical, grave and serious.



Cheers,
Andi
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