Bug#465066: gappletviewer-4.3: empty package on arm* and mips*

[Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 04:24:39PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> severity 465066 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> not release critical. we can reenable those if xulrunner is available
> and built on these archs. xulrunner has too strict dependencies
> between arch-indep and arch packages.

Thanks for your quick reaction. Could you please elaborate a bit on why
this is not release critical, so that I won't make the same mistake again?

I based the severity on the Lenny RC policy:

    Packages must autobuild without failure on all architectures on
    which they are supported. Packages must be supported on as many
    architectures as is reasonably possible. Packages are assumed to
    be supported on all architectures for which they have previously
    built successfully. Prior builds for unsupported architectures
    must be removed from the archive (contact -release or ftpmaster
    if this is the case).

(quoted from http://release.debian.org/lenny/rc_policy.txt )

I can't see how an empty package that promises a "standalone application
to execute Java (tm) applets" can be called "supported". It certainly
looks unusable to me.

Put in another way: not having the standalone application at all on arm*
and mips* is certainly a wishlist bug, but distributing an empty package
instead looks RC to me.

>> (This applies to -4.2 as well, I'll clone the bug later.)
> no, please do not.

OK.

Cheers,
-- 
Niko Tyni   ntyni@debian.org