Re: Deficiencies in Debian

[Hartmut.Koptein@t-online.de (Hartmut Koptein)]

> > This is silly and is never going to happen. People keep uploading new
> > packages with RCB's, and the RCB list keeps growing, regardless of how
> > many RCB's are closed. That _will not_ change until potato freezes.
> 
> Then we stop uploading if we reach 50 RCB. Esay, ehh?  :-)
> 
> Maybe if we had a better definition of which bugs are release critical
> bugs and which are package critical bugs. (E.g., xemacs21, which has
> never gotten out of the early release test phase, has several "release
> critical" bugs.) I've asked before if someone (this would probably have
> to be the release manager) would do a list of the bugs that are really
> "release critical" but people seem more interested in bemoaning the size
> of the RCB list than in whittling it down to reasonable proportions.

Every package that doesn't compile is release critical. If it does compile
but is isn't useful it is important (not installable, seg-fault, ...). 

You're right, xemacs21 is a very bad guy. 



Bye,


    Hartmut