Re: HAMM FREEZE (removed packages)

[James Troup <J.J.Troup@scm.brad.ac.uk>]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

> Non maintainer releases do not close bugs. However, a non maintainer
> release that *just* fixes a bug because a bad building environment
> (buggy debstd, in this case) should probably be able to close such
> bugs.  What do others think about this?

Just downgrade the severity of the bug in question; that should keep
the package away from the prying clutches of the release manager.

IMO a `Fixed' severity is the best way to handle the issue of
non-maintainer uploads and bugs, as discussed previously.

-- 
James


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