On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:08:01 +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > Hi Markus and Gregor,
Hi Bart, > Thank you both for for asking my point of view. My opinion was hidden here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=14;bug=575087 > > | The merged bugs 575087 and 599083 describe multiple problems. One of the > | described problems is that wbar silently fails to display a bar on a > default > | Debian installation. That matches the text "makes the package in > question > | unusable or mostly so" making the severity of this bug "grave". > > My opinion is based on how I understand "Depends" and "Recommends" in > debian-policy. The package should work, providing at least some basic > funcionality, without the software in "Recommends". I see your point; where I disagree is that wbar _does_ work without Recommends, it just needs configuration. Although that's a bit annoying, I don't think it's too much to ask from a user to configure a program before using it, and wbar is not the only package that needs configuration before being able to run. > And about Julien's reason for downgrading to "important" : > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=7;bug=599083 > Editing the ~/.wbar file to specify an existing font should not be needed. > The > initial ~/.wbar, or /etc/wbar.conf if such file exists, should use an existing > font included with the package or installed on the system via "Depends", not > "Recommends". That would of course be better; still I don't think that a problematic default config qualifies as "makes a package unusable or mostly so". > So, in my opinion, this bug should be fixed in wheezy. > But, if you want to downgrade the bug to "important", then I'm not going to > the > TC for this. :-) :) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Bob Dylan: I Am A Lonesome Hobo
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