Re: Report from Debconf's QA BOF
On 15/08/08 at 05:49 +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 12:01:26AM -0300, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
>>>>> - O: bugs are now RC, so packages are removed from testing using the
>>>>> release team's existing policies. Which means that some O: packages
>>>>> might stay in testing for a longer time because they are dependencies
>>>>> of other packages.
>>
>>>> Were members of the release team represented in this BoF?
>>
>>> Sure, Luk was here, and didn't express any disagreement. Actually, I
>>> tried hard to give several opportunities to raise concerns, but
>>> everybody apparently really agreed with the proposal.
>>
>> Hrm, ok... well, I still disagree, but I seem to be overruled :)
>
> The orphanage bug being RC does only mean that it needs to be adopted,
> removed (from unstable and/or testing) or downgraded before the next
> release IMHO. The three options should still be possible, but at least
> they are actively being watched as having non-maintained packages in the
> release should be avoided if possible IMHO.
Could you give an example case where you would want to downgrade an
orphaned package's bug?
L.
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