Re: How bad is a wrong recommends? (was: Bug#273734: education-common: con't fulfill the Recommends on !i386)
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 12:37:25AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:26:24PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 09:24:21PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > The release policy states: "Packages in main cannot require any software
> > > outside of main for execution or compilation." A recommendation is not a
> > > requirement; I don't believe that unfulfillable Recommends are not
> > > release-critical.
> >
> > Oops: "I don't believe that unfulfillable Recommends are
> > release-critical."
>
> Policy disagrees with you.
The definition of what is release-critical lies with the release
managers via the release policy
(http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt), not with the Debian
Policy Manual.
Note that the Debian Policy Manual itself says:
These classifications are *roughly* equivalent to the bug severities
_serious_ (for _must_ or _required_ directive violations), _minor_,
_normal_ or _important_ (for _should_ or _recommended_ directive
violations) and _wishlist_ (for _optional_ items). [2]
The emphasis on "roughly" is mine.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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