Re: Bug#88858: debhelper fixed
On 19.III.2001 at 18:50 (-0500) Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 07:20:16PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> > Just for your information. The command dh_installxfonts is changed in
> > version 3.0.12 of debhelper.
>
> Okay, but it will have to change again soon. (That's what happens when you
> try to make X policy in lieu of the X maintainer.)
>
> I'm preparing 4.0.2-11 now, and it will include a new command,
> update-fonts-dir.
>
> I'd like to test various font packages with that, and then if everything
> works out okay, issue a policy revision that asks font packages to depend
> on xutils (>> 4.0.3), since I'll be putting out 4.0.3-1 (or -0pre1v1)
> shortly after 4.0.2-11.
>
> I appreciate your input on this issue but not your way of going about it.
> Instead of filing a lot of critical(!) bugs, you should have brought it up
> on debian-policy.
I followed the instructions in the Debian Developers Reference. I
presented the problem in debian-devel and waited the end of the
discussion and another week. Then I reported the bug against your
package xfonts-scalable and proposed that you make X policy for font
packages, because you will be able to make it better than me. Then I
waited another one week (and more) for some response from you. Only
then I submitted critical bug reports against another two font
packages.
I would like to say, that I have not done anything that is against the
written in the discussion on this theme in debian-devel and I have not
tried to make X policy in lieu of the X maintainer. Three font
packages had bug with critical severity (make unrelated software on
the system to break) and they needed fast fix. I proposed such fix to
their maintainers and I hope this fix works now when there is no X
font policy. These three packages can not wait for policy change,
because the policy change is slow procedure.
Please don't consider my actions as an attempt to make an unofficial X
policy.
Anton Zinoviev, zinoviev@debian.org
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