Re: Is it the job of Lintian to push an agenda?
On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 09:21:37AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> but as saying goes, "patches gratefully accepted". Whining for developers
> to do extra work via Debian Policy is, well, not.
If patches are actually accepted, that's fine.
But this Policy item currently servers as a tool to _sometimes_ get a patch
through. In some cases such patches get stonewalled, and if you _then_ NMU
a package in question, you can get calls for getting demoted from DD.
We released Buster basically useless in GUI mode in !systemd, despite a
solution been discussed[1] and _implemented_ in January 2018, with multiple
later submissions. And it's not that they haven't been noticed -- the
existence of that patchset was used to justify removal of (unlamented) shim.
So even that on-paper severity is not enough to get patches accepted.
Without it, regressions would be even worse.
Meow!
[1]. Only one member of the systemd team was helpful, so this can't be
called consensus on their part -- but not for a lack of trying.
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