RE: goals for woody ? (Re: Release Date of Woody?)

["Sami Dalouche" <skklists@bigfoot.com>]

Hi all,
I think the easiest way to be sure the FHS will be implemented in every 
package is to mass-report RC Bugs on every package that has 
Standards-Version < 3.0.0
then, thanks to package pools, the package will never go in Testing if 
it's not corrected :)

What do u think ? It would be a good way to force all the packages
to meet certain rules.

Sam

> Hi Adrian!
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> > >  4) correctly having "Build Dependency"
> > >
> > > is also required for woody.
> > 
> > It is only required for packages with a Standards-Version >= 
> 3.1.0 . There
> > are currently 813 packages with a Standards-Version < 3.0.0 and 1190
> > packages with a Standards-Version 3.0.x - and many people 
> upload even the
> > initial release of a package with a Standards-Version 3.0.0... 
> If you want
> > to force all packages using build dependencies you'll have to file at
> > about 2000 RC bugs...
> 
> Well, I think your reasoning is the wrong way around. We should first
> decide whether we want all woody packages to conform to standards-version
> 3.1.x or not. If that decision we make means we'll have to file 100 or
> 1000 or 10000 RC bugs, so be it. I don't see the problem with that.
> 
> I would think it might be worth to consider only allowing new uploads
> with the latest standards-version.