Re: mass bug gnustep programs: policy violation
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:15:43 +0200, Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> said:
> * 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?
Why not, if it violates something like the FHS, which isfar
from a new requirement for Debian packages? Are going to let
standards conformance and quality suffer in our headlong rush to
release something, anything, just release now rush?
manoj
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