On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 22:51, Shachar Shemesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am preparing an upload to Sid, with the intent of getting it into Lenny, > for a package of mine (to solve bug #493061 for fakeroot-ng, if it matters). > While working on it, I found out that the package also has a FTBS twice bug, > which resulted from empty lines (with no leading tab character) in > debian/rules in the clean target. My question is - what to do? > > Do I open a FTBS twice bug for the package and upload the fix? If so, what > priority should the new bug be? I saw FTBS bugs ranging from "wishlist" to > "important". I don't think it is an actual policy violation (am I wrong? Can > someone point me to the relevant section?) > > Alternatively, as the delta has only white spaces between fixing the tabs > and not fixing it, I can just put the fix in and hope the release managers > (hi!) don't catch me when I ask them to allow the fix for 493061 through. > > Then again, if the bug is not important enough, I can upload a fix that only > handles 493061, and doesn't touch the double FTBS bug at all. > > What should I do? > > Shachar > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
It is actually a policy violation; Section 4.9 states: clean This must undo any effects that the build and binary targets may have had, except that it should leave alone any output files created in the parent directory by a run of a binary target. -- /Carl Fürstenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>