On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 20:04 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > severity 493352 serious > thanks > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:16:41PM +0100, Sam Morris wrote: > > I disagree with the statement that this bug is non-RC. > > I fully concur. It is ridiculous that this bug report is marked as > non-RC, as well it is ridiculous that we have a version of gdebi > affected by this bug in Lenny. > > (<rant>I've just tried to help out a newbie friend, which has installed > Lenny, and which need to install some unofficial .debs. You know what, > there is no easy solution for him, I'll have to tell him "you know, open > root terminal and type 'dpkg -i foo.deb'". Completely insane.</rant>) > > I agree that the bug is not "grave", since the command-line part of > gdebi does work, and hence the package is not completely useless. Still, > the fact that the gtk part does not work makes this package unfit for > release. > > I'm raising the severity to serious now. If the maintainer disagree > with the RC-ness of this bug (which would be bizarre at best, given that > he hasn't posted a single message to the bug log thus far), I'm ready to > raise the issue in front of the release team to decide.
On the up-side, maybe if this bug is serious then it can be *fixed* in lenny, and non-expert users will be able to install software again. :) > > Cheers. > -- Sam Morris <s...@robots.org.uk> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
