Re: I've got a orphaned package.
On Sun, May 09, 2004 at 05:34:50PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Matthijs Mohlmann <matthijs@cacholong.nl> schrieb:
> > The package contains, what i think, a serious bug. Do i need to set it
> > to critical ?
>
> If you think that the package should not be released into stable with
> this bug, you should.
Any of serious, grave, or critical will do.
> It seems to me that you should be somewhat slower and more careful with
> your maintainer tasks. In the changelog of your latest packages you
> write:
>
> ,----
> | * Changed to debhelper program (Closes #240384)
> `----
>
> I said previously that this is a bad changelog entry, because one
> doesn't know which change exactly was made, and how this closes the
> bug. But now it seems that you think that this doesn't fix the bug at
> all, and need more testing.
Furthermore it won't actually close the bug as apparently desired. See
the policy manual for the syntax of "closes".
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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