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Re: Release-critical Bug Report for November 7



--On Mon, Nov 9, 1998 3:02 pm +0100 "Joost.Witteveen" <joostw@att.cmg.nl>
wrote: 

> ubject: Release critical bug...
>> 
>> >Package: lyx
>> >Maintainer: Stuart Lamble <lamble@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au>
>> >  28222  LyX doesn't work on a fresh install
>> 
> 
> I may be clueless, but since when are bugs against non-free/contrib
> packages considered Release critical?
> 
> Or has LyX's dependancy on XForms been removed? (Or maybe this bug
> never was `Release critical'?)
> 
> Anyway, as far as I know non-free/contrib are not part of Debian, and can
> thus also not delay the release of Debian.

But we still endeavour to provide a working set of packages in non-free and
contrib.  So, if a package in non-free or contrib has a release-critical bug
against (I.e. it doesn't work, essentially) then it should be pulled from
frozen, or fixed.  Fair enough?

I.e., I (I filed that bug above..) wasn't suggesting that slink should be
held up for lyx.  I was simply suggesting that either lyx should be removed,
or the bug fixed.  (In fact, it turned out to be a tetex bug, which has been
fixed).

Jules

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