On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 02:33:38PM +0000, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Mon, 02 Jun 2008, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Nowhere did I saw anything about the removal. On the contrary I saw > Josselin downgraded #449040 to important and the 3 other RC bugs > are a matter of removing files in the postinst. > > They do not cause user problems any more since we now use python2.5 and > left over in python 2.4 can't interfere (but that should still be > resolved). Packages with leftover files are RC buggy no matter what. And leftover files not fixed for a month points to badly maintained package, which is worse. > [...] Just to not remove the packages and to advertise the fact that > someone must take care of those because they are part of what we > wanted to provide to our users. No it's not our job. That's the QA people job, maybe. If you care about RC buggy packages that are leaf nodes and that are candidate to removal, then look at [0], it's what I use as input, the list is rather short (wasn't 3 days ago, but I try to keep it under 150 packages all time). You see a package you care about there ? Hurry to fix it. > > So there is a removal policy, that I believe to be sane, and update-* > > matched. > > As as I said, you should reconsider the policy when it comes to > packages which are installed through tasks. Given what fjp said, then, err, no. update-* are nowhere near needed for a gnome desktop to be functional. > > FWIW I consider that new testing users not having a broken network-* > > installed are users that have a better experience than users with fancy > > stuff that does not work (but is very fancy I assume). > > Have you evaluated the level of brokenness before adding those hints? Yes, the breakage is a release critical bug, which is broken enough. [0] http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php?bydist=both&sortby=srcpackages&ignhinted=on&ignclaimed=on&ignnew=on&ignmerged=on&ignnonfree=on&ignbritney=on&ignotherfixed=on&new=20&refresh=1800 -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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