severity 308477 important thanks Hi Fred, On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:45:41AM +0200, Frédéric Bothamy wrote: > I have recently (3 days ago) reported the RC bug #308477 for the > libtextwrap1 package. As I have not received any answer from the > maintainer (and there is another older important bug for which he has > made no comments), I am wondering if: > - I am not totally wrong on this bug report (I am still unsure about the > "Run-time support programs" of the 8.2 section of Debian Policy) > - the maintainer (Tomohiro Kubota) may be MIA (from what I have found > using debian.org website, his last message was in august 2004). > If both conditions are true, the source package libtextwrap would be a > good candidate for an NMU (a patch is included in the bug report), but > it would definitely need some more testing from a DD (removal is > probably not an option as cdebconf depends on it). You are correct that it is a policy violation. However, not all policy violations are release-critical for a given release; see <http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt>. In particular, since there are no other versions of libtextwrap for us to worry about conflicting with this /usr/bin/dotextwrap binary, this bug is not RC for sarge because nothing is broken by it in practice. Moving the binary to the -dev package can be done just as well post-sarge whenever libtextwrap2 appears, using the same Replaces: libtextwrap1 with no ill effects. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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