Leonardo Boselli:
> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> Yep, verified. (First verified on November 5th but I wanted to look
>> further before replying.) Unfortunately it's also true for 1.2.17-1 in
>> Sid and Stretch, and might be too late to change now before the upcoming
>> Stable release. mumble-server-web was dropped just before the release
>> of Wheezy by Ron Lee in 2012 (1.2.3-349-g315b5f5-2):
>> https://tracker.debian.org/news/389580
>> I would like to fix this because I would like to give users correct
>> information, but I likely wouldn't be able to do an upload for this
>> alone without there being a more serious problem I could add this to.
>
> so one have to expect a bigger problem to fix a minor one ?
> anyway would be unfair leave the "bug" present ans since it is a very
> minor change, only in the package description, it would not require any
> further testing [at least, any change cannot make things worse than now !]
>
>> Uploads to Stable are limited to fairly serious bugs, and then get
>> included in Point Releases when they happen (usually once every three
>> months). This is explained in the Debian Developer's Reference here:
>>
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch05.en.html#upload-stable
>From the link above (section 5.5.1 of the Developer's Reference):
"Extra care should be taken when uploading to stable. Basically,
a package should only be uploaded to stable if one of the
following happens:
- a truly critical functionality problem
- the package becomes uninstallable
- a released architecture lacks the package"
I have previously tried to fix minor bugs (similar to this one) and had
the changes rejected by the Release Team. The Release Team reviews the
.diff of all proposed changes and only accepts those changes that they
deem serious enough to merit accepting.
With this understanding, if you still feel passionate enough about this
problem, you could contact the Release Team and ask if they would accept
an upload to Stable for a package that has a documentation bug
mentioning an additional support package that has been removed from the
archive 4 years ago. If they'd be willing to accept such an upload then
I'd probably be willing to prepare one.
-- Chris
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Chris Knadle
chris.kna...@coredump.us
