Re: Raising severity of Contains /usr/share/info/dir.gz if rebuilt on current sid"-bugs.
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:32:25AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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.
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?list=build-depends&package=&arch=ANY&dist=sarge
and
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=sarge&list=halfbroken-build-depends&arch=ANY
Didn't count though.
--Jeroen
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