Benjamin BAYART <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> So here was my practical conclusion: I did send a bug report, useless >>> during months, and that bug report was used to argue that the package >>> is >>> broken and unkaintained and to remove it. Conclusion: reporting on a >>> un-maintained package is something dangerous. >> >>Hm, what was the severity of the bugs you are thinking about? Where the >>packages removed due to a couple of unfixed important bugs? > > There was two kinds of bugs in the package: > - the one I reported, with a patch (segfault on some cases introduced by > modern TeX uses) > - bugs about Debian (version of the standards, version of dh_*, etc) > > Of course, the bugs about Debian were regarded as very serious, and were > the reason for being a candidate to removal. From a user point of view, > it sounds like crazy.
I'm not sure what you are talking about exactly, and which package was a candidate for removal. dvidvi had a debhelper-related bug (#168387), but this was not just about a version, it failed to build from source. This is something we cannot tolerate in a stable release. An outdated standards version doesn't make a package a candidate for removal AFAICT. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
