Re: woody is getting worse...
I remembered that there was a post on that in debianplanet, so I found it
pretty quickly (I was wondering already when I saw that Xfree-4.1.0-7 was
downloaded and I was remembering the problem).
But I would suggest that the maintainer should do a -8 version in this case
fixing the problem, because the time needed to do a -8 upload would have been
probably orders of magnitudes less than the time all people need to find out
what to fix and fix it. I even would prefer to stay with -6 in testing until a
-8 is released for other reasons.
Is there any kind of Debian testing policy concering issues like this? Are
packages which are not intended to release like this appropriate for testing?
Thanks.
Rainer.
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 08:53:55PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > The testing scripts have never been about ensuring that woody doesn't have
> > any bugs at all; it's been about ensuring that it doesn't have release
> > critical bugs. Neither 114186 nor 115752 have been marked as RC. I'd've
> > thought 115752 should be at least "serious" ("in the maintainer's opinion
> > makes the package unsuitable for release"), fwiw.
>
> Re: 115752
>
> There are plenty of bugs I don't intend to "release" XFree86 with, but
> one that requires only a 5-second edit to conffile doesn't strike me as
> "serious" by any stretch of the imagination.
>
> If there are people using woody who can't handle firing up a text editor
> to remove a pair of quotes from a 2-line file, they need to go back to
> playing Pong.
>
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