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Bug#667863: release.debian.org: Raising severity of bugs blocking the octave transition?



On Tue, May  1, 2012 at 22:13:19 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:

> Package: release.debian.org
> Followup-For: Bug #667863
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> The octave transition is well under way, but it is still blocked by a few
> packages which have not yet adapted to the new octave packaging scheme. The
> goal of the Debian Octave Group is to remove the old octave3.2* packages before
> the Wheezy release. Currently this removal is blocked by the 5 bugs listed as
> blockers of the present bug. These bugs were submitted about one month ago,
> they are currently of severity important, and we provided a patch for all of
> them.
> 
> Our question is the following: does the Release Team think it is appropriate to
> raise the severity of these bugs to serious, in order to ensure that the
> octave3.2* removal will happen before the Wheezy release?
> 
I have no particular opinion on bug severity, but if you want to make
that removal happen then NMUs (using the delayed queue) seem an
appropriate way forward?

Cheers,
Julien

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