Re: A Round of Removals

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

toni@debian.org (Toni Mueller) writes:

> I've looked around and found that some of these packages have their bugs
> only on Alpha or, probably even more rarely used, HP-PA. But so far my
> understanding was that a release is aimed to provide the same set of
> packages for all supported architectures.

It is true that our overall goal is for every relevant package to build on
every architecture.  However, the rule we've been using takes into account
the fact that we don't live in a perfect world.  If a package has never built
on a particular architecture, that's not a release-critical problem.

Any package which doesn't build for all relevant architectures gets a non-RC 
bug (typically of severity 'important') filed against it.

Any package which previously built for a given architecture but on which 
newer versions fail to build gets an RC bug (typically of severity 'serious')
filed against it.

This mirrors the promotion rules for packages to enter testing.  To enter 
testing, a package must have successfully been built on all architectures it
was previously built for.

Bdale