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Re: Mass bug filing: failure to use invoke-rc.d when required



On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 12:53:39AM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ti, 2006-05-16 kello 09:53 +0200, Bas Zoetekouw kirjoitti:
>> Lars wrote:

>>>> The usage is mendantory (aka a must clause) but the bugs are not
>>>> RC?  This does not fit.

>>> It violates policy, but not in a way enumerated on
>>> http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt, which means that it isn't
>>> release critical, unless I've misunderstood something.

>> AFAIK, vilolating policy always waarent a serious bug:

>> | serious
>> |    is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a
>> |    "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's
>> |    opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.

>> [http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities]

> This is not what Steve Langasek tells me (or else I'm seriously
> misunderstanding). The etch_rc_policy.txt document is what documents
> what is release critical.

Doesn't that mean the bug is severity serious, but should be tagged
"etch-ignore"? That's what we did with sarge, if I remember well?

-- 
Lionel



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