On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 08:22:44PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 12:59:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > >... > > There are also RC-severity bugs which are sid-only, caused by package > > removals: a package in sid may be uninstallable, whereas in sarge the > > needed dependency will not be removed until it's not needed by dependent > > packages. This is a grave bug in sid, but should not affect the > > package's eligibility for release (since it isn't a bug at all in > > testing). > >... > It might depend on why the other package was removed from unstable. > Consider a dependency on a package like latex2html that had to go to > non-free. ... which would clearly be a separate clase of bug from what I just described ("package in main depends on non-free code" != "package is uninstallable"). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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