On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 at 11:36:57 +0530, Chris Lamb wrote: > > > Just as one example, a timezone library that did not work properly > > > in timezones beyond UTC+0800, etc. > > > > That's a bug, sure, but is it necessarily a release-critical bug? > > I'm not sure I see the value in discussing > the severity level of a hypothetical bug? :)
The reason I brought it up is that you mentioned detecting such bugs as a reason to prefer not to force TZ=UTC for related packages' builds; but if that makes a package's build fail, then it becomes "artificially" RC, whether it would have been RC on its own merits or not. smcv