Re: List of bugs that *must* be fixed before freezing Hamm
On Sun, 8 Feb 1998, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 1998 at 03:07:23AM -0500, Brian White wrote:
> > The following bug reports *must* be fixed before the current unstable Debian
> > distribution can progress further in its development cycle. Reminders have
> > been sent to the maintainers of these packages yet nothing has been done to
> > remedy these bugs.
>
> <cutted a list of zillion bugs>
>
> > These bugs are all the "critical", "grave", and "important" bug reports,
> > both "pending" and "forwarded".
>
> > These bugs can either be degraded below critical, grave, and important, or
> > they can be fixed in non-maintainer releases.
>
> > Alternatively, the package can be reverted to the version in Bo. If this is
> > done, _don't_ close the bug but rather downgrade the severity of the bug
> > to "normal".
>
> Are we sure we want to fix _ALL_ the problems before freezing?
> Many of the bugs against optional packages, and IMHO the distribution
> should not wait for optional packages, which have been proven to be
> unimportant by the fact that no-one has bothered to fix a >= important
> bug.
The distribution will definitely not wait for _optional_ packages--they
will simply be moved to project/orphaned if these `important' bugs are not
fixed in time.
> We should just cruelly dump those packages to contrib, AFAIK contrib is
> a place for packages that are not maintained.
No, contrib is not the right place for this anymore. (According to current
policy, contrib is for DFSG-free packages which require non-DFSG-free
packages for building/execution.) `project/orphaned' is the right place
for `unmaintained' packages.
Thanks,
Chris
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