As the maintainer of this package, I can say that I agree that it should have lowered priority to optional or extra.
Regards, // Ola On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:02:27AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: serious > > The 'setserial' package remains problematic on many systems. In the worst > cases, having the package installed with the default debconf choice taken > will cause a hard system crash on boot. There seems to be general agreement > that this package, while still useful on some systems in some cases, is no > longer an appropriate package to have as part of Debian's 'base' install. > > Please downgrade the priority of setserial from 'important' to 'extra'. I > would accept 'optional', but the "it can crash your system if you don't know > what you're doing" aspect makes me suggest 'extra' as more appropriate. A > change to a priority lower than 'standard' is release-critical for sarge. > > As supporting evidence for this request, I offer the changelog of debootstrap > version 0.2.41, and the message thread it references attached to bug #212646. > The change in debootstrap was necessary but not sufficient to solve the > problem, as 'important' priority causes tasksel, et al, to install setserial. > We *must* fix this for sarge release! > > Please also move the setserial package from 'base' to 'comm'. This is not > absolutely required, but once the priority is lowered it would be less > confusing to our users if setserial were no longer part of the 'base' section. > > Bdale > -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://www.opal.dhs.org Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
