Re: On Bugs

[Brian Almeida <bma@tux.org>]

Maybe he thinks all you VA people are the same :-)

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From: "Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>
To: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
Subject: RE: On Bugs
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Message-ID: <XFMail.20001002103205.shaleh@valinux.com>

How about a different slant?

Why should a grave bug on gedit hold up a release?  With the number of packages
we have, ensuring that the tiny "My first program" pieces of software are bug
free is nearly impossible.  perhaps we should limit the scope of release
critical bugs to packages with priority standard or lower?
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On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 02:25:31PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> I have no idea where you found your attirbutions. FWIW, this is my first
> post in this thread and I wrote nothing below this line.
> 
> John Goerzen wrote:
> > Well, no.  If gedit has a grave bug, if it's not important, just don't
> > release it.  We shouldn't be releasing things that are going to
> > segfault immediately on start, pose a large security risk, or
> > whatnot.  
> > 
> > Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > How about a different slant?
> > > 
> > > Why should a grave bug on gedit hold up a release?  With the number of packages
> > > we have, ensuring that the tiny "My first program" pieces of software are bug
> > > free is nearly impossible.  perhaps we should limit the scope of release
> > > critical bugs to packages with priority standard or lower?
> > > 
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