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Re: Raising severity of Contains /usr/share/info/dir.gz if rebuilt on current sid"-bugs.



On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:02:17PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > I'd like to agree with you.
> > 
> > But the first thing to achieve this would be to fix testing to honor 
> > build dependencies...
> 
> Yes please.  This would help the security team as soon as we have to
> support testing (and eventually stable).  However, we only need this
> when testing is frozen until it is deprecated.
> 
> I know that this will cause problems during the migration of packages
> from unstable into testing.  Hence, wrt security this would be sufficient
> to be present when testing is frozen.

You really need it from the start of a release cycle so that people have
time to fix the problems. It would be helpful if somebody could work out
the number of build-dependency relationships currently broken in
testing.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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