Re: Bug#277074: Circular dependencies are not a good idea

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:01:17PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
>...
> > BTW: How do I correctly file such a Recommends bug then?
> >      It's a RC bug according to your policy and I'd add the 
> >      sarge-ignore tag when filing, but Steve had explicitely stated that 
> >      only the release managers are allowed to alter the sarge-ignore
> >      tag.
> >      File it as serious and a release manager will add the tag?
> 
> 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]

It's the release managers decision whether the ignore such serious bugs 
for sarge - that's what the sarge-ignore tag is for.

> --Jeroen

cu
Adrian

[1] Didn't you have to read it as part of your NM application?

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