Re: changing priorities
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 05:22:59PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > If you convince the ftp.debian.org maintainers to fix *all* the bugs
> > (not only those of important severity), fine.
>
> This isn't just a matter of having the ftpmasters finally get around to
> doing stuff, some things probably need recompiling, and some thought is
> definitely needed as to whether priorities should be raised or lowered.
Of course it isn't "just" but it's "mainly". There are trivial bugs
which are not being fixed, require no recompiling and require no ok
from the package maintainer (you can see some examples in my web page
at http://ftp-master.debian.org/~sanvila). Fixing them should be easier
than writing some lines in a changelog and making an ordinary package
upload, but they are still unfixed. I am still waiting for dialog to
change its section out of "libs". Can you imagine how many months ago
I reported that?
Either more people work on the ftp.debian.org team, the current
members work a little bit more on it, or we will never get rid of
ftp.debian.org bugs, which means we will never have a consistent
priority system, even if we try to improve the system by creating new
priorities.
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