control: severity -1 wishlist
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 03:50:15PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIÈS wrote:
> Package: ola
> control: severity -1 serious
>
> This a serious bug. See ftpmaster statement
You are not a member of the ftpmaster team. I have explained my opinion
on this matter, and unless someone who is a member of the ftpmaster team
changes the severity of this bug, it is going to remain as wishlist. If
they do, all I'll be doing at this stage of the release is to just pick
the relevant upstream non-minified javascript libraries and add them to
the diff.gz.
Just to reiterate, this is my position:
- The javascript libraries in question *are* free (whether in source or
minified form);
- They are shipped by (ola's) upstream as unmodified convenience copies
of the (javascript library's) upstream minified versions of said
javascript libraries;
- They are *also* shipped by Debian in the relevant libjs-* packages;
- The relevant libjs-* packages are what is in fact being used by the
ola package.
I have yet to see a convincing argument how all of the above *combined*
constitutes either a DFSG violation, or something that fails SC#4.
If the FTP team explains to me why that is a DFSG violation, I'll add
the "missing" files. If they don't, things will remain as they are (and
if they don't but do change severities, I'll ask the TC to rule).
Alternatively, if someone can convince me that it fails SC#4 in some
way, I'll consider "fixing" this bug.
Meanwhile, please stop playing BTS severity pingpong.
Thanks.
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
