Bug#509732: closed by Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> (Re: Bug#509732: Kalle's message #68)
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, José Luis González wrote:
> The bug is about the Manual, not the policy package. The
> debian-policy package wouldn't "[make] unrelated software on the
> system (or the whole system) break," only the Manual. If the
> erroneous Manual was not yet in the package that severity wouldn't
> apply to the package. If it was, the severity would apply to the
> Document in the package. The former isn't "falling afoul of", the
> latter could.
I have no clue what you're talking about here, then. This hypothetical
case makes no sense.
If it breaks other packages, it's an RC bug. If the bug is in
debian-policy, but doesn't actually break other packages, then it's
(probably) not an RC bug. People are watching -policy and can make the
determination.
> May I know if bugs under debian-policy are sent to the list? If they
> are not automatically it is still possible that it won't get into
> the list and won't have its severity properly set.
They are automatically sent.
> Please, do not close bugs just because you don't want to deal with
> them.
I closed this bug with that message because:
1) The problem that I could understand was entirely hypothetical
2) The failure class that you presented is already covered
Thus, the problem has already been dealt with.
Don Armstrong
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