[REASSIGNED] Re: Bug#65429: boot-floppies installation stopped by tetex-bin bug
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 09:38:42AM -0400, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> Yes you should, and you can't because of tetex, which is a bug in tetext!.
> If you filed a bug on every package that could not be installed because
> another package could not be installed we would have a sphaghetti of
> inter-dependent bug reports.
>
> Right. But in this case, the bug that prevents me from installing
> boot-floppies is a bug (among others) that is preventing the release
> of Debian 2.3. It is `release critical'.
a) potato is Debian 2.2. Debian 2.3 (woody) will not be releasing for
quite a few months. So if you are working with woody, then get over it
because we are only worried about potato until the day it releases.
This is not holding up release, all of the boot-floppies builds for
potato worked, and every HAD to have tetex-bin installed to do it.
b) I'll say it again, it is not the responsibility of the boot-floppies
maintainers to make sure that other packages needed for it are
installable. That is left up to the respective package maintainers.
> I don't know whether the person maintaining tetex-bin knows that. I
> would hope he would be more likely to fix the bug if you said to him:
> `a bug in tetex-bin is holding up the release; please help!'
Again, this is something you have to communicate to the tetex-bin
maintainer. As the bug reporter, YOU have the responsibility to relay that
information.
> It is fine to offload blame, but boot-floppies needs to install and
> right now it does not.
>
> apt-get install boot-floppies
>
> is broken. Yes, you can put the blame on tetex-bin, but the
> responsibility, willy-nilly, is yours!
No, "installing tetex-bin" is broken. If you simply did "apt-get install
tetex-bin" you would see the same problem. BOOT-FLOPPIES MAINTAINERS
CANNOT FIX A BUG IN TETEX!. Plain and simple. Only the tetex-bin
maintainer can fix the problem.
I have reassigned this bug to tetex-bin, please let this discussion die.
Saying that boot-floppies is responsible for a broken tetex-bin install is
like saying it is a bug in GCC that "non_existant_func(blah)" wont
compile. It is just not the case. When reporting bugs, and placing "blame"
as you like to call it, we are very specific technically about where that
"blame" lies. The fact is that it lies in tetex-bin, and no where else.
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