Re: missing recommends are not RC severity
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:34:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> writes:
>
> > dropping -devel@, adding -release@ and -policy@, I'm wondering if this
> > should be resolved somehow...:
>
> > A few days ago I wrote:
> >> > >if your package recommends a package which is not available, this is a
> >> > >normal bug, not one with RC severity (and neither an important one).
>
> > To which on Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:04:47PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >> > Policy 2.2.1 pretty clearly says otherwise.
>
> > Then on Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 06:14:56PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> >> While the release policy says "Packages in main cannot require any
> >> software outside of main for execution or compilation. "Recommends:" lines
> >> do not count as requirements."
>
> This is kind of a weird corner since the intent of that wording in Policy
> is more about contrib and non-free (hence the wording saying "non-main"
> package), not about packages that aren't available in a particular release
> of the archive. I'm not sure we thought about this case when writing that
> wording. One could be pedantic and argue that a package in main in
> unstable is not a package "outside of main" even though it's not available
> in testing, although that's a rather strained argument.
>
> I'm quite sure from past discussion that we want to be sure packages don't
> Recommend contrib or non-free packages, and don't want to re-open that.
> But that's not quite the same thing as a package that (possibly
> temporarily) isn't available in that release, and I feel like we should
> make a separate determination whether that's supposed to be an RC bug.
>...
The most weird part of not treating this as RC is that this alone
is sufficient for a direct reject in NEW:
https://ftp-master.debian.org/REJECT-FAQ.html
cu
Adrian
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