Re: Bug#277074: Circular dependencies are not a good idea
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:19:54PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:01:17PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> > You file it at 'important'. The 'serious' severity is defined by the
> > release managers, and unfulfillable recommends is not one of the
> > criteria. Yes, this is not completely obvious from the documentation of
> > the BTS, since this used to be different. It is currently true, though.
>
> This is wrong. "serious' is defined in section 1.1 of the Debian Policy
> Manual. [1]
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
| serious
| is a severe violation of Debian policy[2] (roughly, it violates a
| "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's
| opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.
[2] http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt
And [2] says:
| The purpose of this document is to be a correct, complete and canonical
| list of issues that merit a "serious" bug under the clause "a severe
| violation of Debian policy".
Serious was created expressly for release management purposes, and it is
within the RM's domain, or otherwise at least the BTS manager's domain
(which happens to have one person in common) to define it.
And you know it, it's been pointed out numberous times, but you choose
to ignore it.
> [1] Didn't you have to read it as part of your NM application?
What do you think?
--Jeroen
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