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Re: mass bug gnustep programs: policy violation



On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 09:58:56PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> * Dan Weber (dan@mirrorlynx.com) [040622 05:40]:
> > There is a serious policy violation regarding all programs dependant 
> > upon gnustep-base1 and themselves.  They break Section 9.1.1 of the 
> > Debian Policy.
> > 
> > Using /usr/lib/GNUstep for non-lib and executable binaries for direct 
> > invocation is not permitted.
> 
> Well, though I agree that this is a serious bug, I consider it
> inappropriate to try to deal with this pre-sarge. If we want to get
> sarge out, we can't always insists on doing major changes to complex
> packages _now_.

They could just be removed from sarge and be released again with
sarge+1... Not every package with a RC bug has to be fixed and released
with sarge, it is common practice to pull them if they don't get fixed
in time.

Chris

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