Re: paul: NEWS.Debian abuse
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, David B Harris wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 17:15:42 -0500
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> > How does this information matter at all to the typical Debian user?
Well, this information matters to the typical user of this very program because
the bug which was fixed in this release introduced a bunch of untested code which
is a new thing for users of this program and I wanted to tall about this fact.
> > What can the typical Debian user do about this?
He should nothing do but he should know.
It is more or less an answer to questions I was asked.
> > If paul ends up being
> > unsuitable for release in sarge, a release-critical bug should be filed
> > against it.
It is perfectly releasable but my intention was to inform users about a
principal change that I turned my focus from this program and the support
might be not as good as before which is a *change* which is not mentioned
in the changelog and it is *new*.
> I agree, this is not information the administrator likely cares about.
> If they do, they are in all likelyhood participants in a more
> appropriate forum (such as the one you mentioned,
> debian-devel@lists.debian.org).
I agree that it might be a missuse of NEWS.Debian and moved the information
to README.Debian. BTW, I do not think that this bug fits to the criteria
of severity "normal".
Kind regards
Andreas.
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