Filipus Klutiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not sure whether you mean bug in the strict sense or in the BTS's > sense. Do you think a divergence is a minor bug or a wishlist "bug"? I > disagree that any divergence is a bug, but there may be a request to get > rid of a divergence.
I won't speak for Joey, but I consider a divergence a bug in the sense that I'd use with a general bug-tracking system: it's something about the package and/or the packaged software that, in an ideal world, would be improved. Nothing more (or less) than that. The severity of the bug depends on how serious the divergence from upstream is. For example, I would say that the divergence from OpenLDAP upstream in how we handle libldap and libldap_r is normal or maybe even important, since upstream strongly dislikes what we're doing (but we can't find a better solution that works for what Debian needs and is acceptable to upstream). They may be very difficult bugs, but bugs aren't necessarily things that are easy to fix, or that even will be fixed. It's a record of something that doesn't match the way the software *should* be in an ideal world. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]