Re: mass bug gnustep programs: policy violation
* Chris Cheney (ccheney@cheney.cx) [040623 20:55]:
> 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.
You're not really suggesting to not release gnustep in sarge?
Cheers,
Andi
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