Re: Bits from the RM
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:31:02PM +0100, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> writes:
> > another package's was using convert in the build stage to convert
> > some images and it was failing. The bug was elevated to
> > release-critical. I don't think it would be fair to remove
> > imagemagick from the distribution for such a case.
>
> From the other package's view, how fair was it to allow a partly
> broken version of Imagemagick enter the distribution, breaking the
> build on debian?
There are plenty of bugs that should be fixed, certainly, but not all of
them need to be release-critical.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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