Bug#252928: Why did you lower the severity of #252928?

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 02:13:01AM +0200, Dominique Devriese wrote:
> Chris Cheney writes:
> 
> > I am really fatigued (I think I may not have ever gotten well yet)
> > so I don't really want to start a flamewar. Here is a more full
> > quote and more fully explains the situation. The situation with
> > apollon is not the same as the wine issue. The wine issue was that
> > old already in Debian stable versions of wine would break with new
> > libc6. apollon if it exists in Debian stable already (I didn't
> > check) would not work anyway since it would be compiled against KDE
> > 2.2. I'll let domi and you hash this out the rest of the way, I need
> > to lay back down.
> 
> Hm, right, didn't notice this.  Anyway, the question comes down to
> what combinations of versions we support.  There are two situations in
> which people would suffer from the bug:
> 
> 1 people who have mixed unstable/testing environments, due to partial
>   upgrades, or apt pinning
> 2 the situation where the new kdelibs reaches testing, and the new
>   apollon doesn't.
> 
> Debian doesn't officially support the first group, and the second

Could you back this claim?

I'm no fan of apt pinning, but considering that even some Debian 
developers suggest apt pinning to solve this or that problem, it would 
be surprising if all these Debian developers would suggest something 
their packages don't support.

And considering the age of stable, many people have to run strange 
stable/testing/unstable mixtures today [1].

> situation is not all that likely.  However, adding the conflict
> doesn't very much overhead, except for the fact that if we start doing
> this for every such situation, we'll end up with a hell of a lot of
> conflicts.

The conflicts of e.g. libc6 are perhaps not aethetically pleasing, but 
they do their job.

> Anyway, I'd say to just add the conflict, we can easily remove it
> afterward.  In the past, there have been kdelibs-data conflicts for
> problems outside of kdelibs as well.  Ok if I commit this to pkg-kde,
> calc ?

Thanks a lot!

> cheers
> domi

cu
Adrian

[1] not counting the backport hell, but backports definitely don't have 
    to be supported by Debian

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