/* You might ignore this comment... Looking at the list of RC bugs the packages seems to fall in two categories. Packages I don't use and packages I don't feel comfortable in touching (glibc being an example of the latter).
I don't know the reason for some packages being marked [REMOVE] but it seems to me that it is not just an 'This package is not essential for a releas an useful distribution'. For an example I don't guess that gkrellm-alltraxclock[0] is in any way a package that people think should really hold up the release. 0) Sorry, just a random pick. */ There are some packages we should have if we want Debian to be a general purpose distribution. I guess we can have a long flamewar about which packages this includes and in the end it is the release manager's decission but it is probally something like: - whatever in the Base Utils-section - Gnome - KDE - nethack - apache - XFree - ssh - Mozilla (some sort of) - Emacs (some sort of) - VI (some sort of) - Perl - LaTeX - ... And then some pacakges I've forgot... And then depencies and build-depancies for these packages is needed too. Has anyone tried to make such list of packages we can't release without and made a list of RC-bugs in excatly those packages? I believe this is the bugs it would be most effective to actack when the packages I'm personally directly interested in. It can be hard to look at the RC-list and decide if the time is better spend fixing libtse3, libvorbisfile3, or fam. A script that reads packages I'm interested in and prints out the RC-bugs I should try to fix would be usable. Does anyone have such script? Is this an egoistic approach to fixing RC-bugs? Yeah, and so what? - it is the best possible motivation I can think of. /* You might as well ignore this comment too... I really shouldn't send this mail. It will probally just (re)start some flamewar. Let me have the illusion that the time spend flaminig wouldn't have been used on real development otherwise. */ -- Peter Makholm | If you can't do any damage as root, are you still [EMAIL PROTECTED] | really root? http://hacking.dk | -- Derek Gladding about SELinux