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Bug#552576: live-installer: no-standards-version-field



severity 552576 important
thanks

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 01:15:01AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> A missing standards version is a violation of a Should directive in
> policy, and normally would be filed as important.

> Filed as serious, since a package with these files will currently get
> this package rejected. See
>   http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/10/msg00004.html
> for details. This means the package has been deemed too buggy to be in
> Debian.

It has been deemed "too buggy to be in Debian" by the ftp team, who don't
have the authority to make such determinations on their own.

Downgrading this bug; I have requested that the ftp team remove these
overreaching archive checks that have no basis in Policy's requirements, and
intend to follow up with a GR if necessary.

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