* Raphael Geissert (geiss...@debian.org) [100527 16:52]: > On Thursday 27 May 2010 03:08:58 Andreas Barth wrote: > > * Raphael Geissert (geiss...@debian.org) [100527 06:47]: > > > Those bugs are policy violations and make those packages FTBFS when using > > > dash from testing or experimental, or posh. > > > > > > Tag them squeeze-ignore if you want, but their severity is 'serious.' > > > > That's not your call to make. > > > > The release team decided that these bugs are not release critical. > > Hence my suggestion to mark them squeeze-ignore. > > They might not be release critical but their severity, in terms of the BTS, > _is_ serious. Do we agree on that?
No. The release team defines when a bug is "a severe violation of Debian policy" (see http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt). We decided that these bugs are not fullfiling the criteria at the current moment. (Basically, if we'd say "well, we ignore these build errors for the release of squeeze" then it'd be -ignore. But if we say "this are too many bugs right now, so please first try to minimize the number", then these are important only - instead of reverting the change in dash we could have used /bin/bash on the buildds and avoid further build failures as well. Same as we did e.g. for the introduction of gcc-4.4. Or any other toolchain change which would lead to many build failures.) Of course, feel free to use the usual NMU rules for these bugs (technically, I see this as part of "get rid of bashimns", which are part of several release goals, but others might disagree). > > We intend to change that decision if only an acceptable number of such > > bugs is left. > > I'm going to try to find time to work on those bugs so that LINENO can be > reintroduced for squeeze. I'd appreciate that. Thanks. Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
