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Bug#428661: Pre-Depends on an unknown Debian version



severity 428661 wishlist
tags 428661 wontfix
retitle 428661 don't like to see ubuntu mentioned in the control file
kthxbye

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 15:04:04 +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote:

> 
> reopen 428661
> thanks
> 
> > right, feel free to abuse release-critical bug severities for
> > nonexistent bugs...
> 
> Policy violation has always been severity Serious, this is not a
> personnal choice.

Actual policy violations, sure.

> 
> > Can you point at an actual problem, rather than unsubstantiated FUD?
> 
> Happilly, this is not widespread behavior, so, besides Recommends or
> Suggests on nonexistent versions or even packages, there are no real
> problems _yet_.
> 
> I see no reason why external work should be borrowed without being
> properly included.

What does that have to do with anything?  I asked you to point at an
actual bug.

> >> Moreover, this is a policy violation : "7.1 Syntax of relationship
> >
> > No it's not.
> 
> Saying so is not an argument. If you don't agree with this bug, then
> call the commity.

*sigh*

> I don't think we get much quality by being lazy. Someone forgot to
> mention the Pre-Depends un the 7.0.0-0ubuntu3 changelog entry, even if
> it is easy to guess for a DD, but we don't write it for internal Debian
> references only, so my point of view is : this should have been checked
> and recompiled. For this i don't ask anything because i know this is a
> lot of work to handle such hard packages. But for the control file
> information, i won't accept such messy information, leading to a
> situation where the version is not easily controlable, and most of all,
> would deny any possibility of automatic verifications.
> 
What kind of control and verifications are you talking about?  And what
is messy about this control file?

Cheers,
Julien

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