On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Agustin Martin <agustin6mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2014-02-15 5:47 GMT+01:00 Dave Steele <dste...@gmail.com>: >> Hi Agustin, >> >> On the subject of TODO list priorities, note that the Piupart broken symlink >> test is likely to be elevated soon, returning an error result rather than a >> warning. > > Hi David, > > While I really appreciate your work on following the bug report, I > really think this is nonsensic escalation.
OK. For my part, the issue is moot. I came into this as a developer of one of the over one-thousand packages that has a message saying there is a (dictionaries-common) broken symlink problem in the piuparts test. I had to do (a small amount of) research to determine that, while it is a problem worth addressing, it wasn't my problem. Multiplying that inconvenience by one thousand - I found that worthy of attention, and a three-year-old bug report on the subject worthy of a bump. > Sorry again if I look unpolite, I am just after lunch and a bit > overheated. Debian policy must be stated directly by Debian policy, > not indirectly by whatever package requirements. pipuarts is not > Debian policy, so I'd personally consider this a bug in piuparts > itself. I've come to the conclusion that the Policy is Debian's version of Godwin's Law. It can be a driving principle, more of just a guideline, or not important, dependent on the needs of the argument. Invoking it diverts discussion. So, no more about that from me. As you say, this is about a piuparts test result. My involvement in piuparts has convinced me that the tests add value, and reflect errors appropriately. I've seen that the issues found don't get fixed until they are classified as errors. I've also come to understand that addressing an issue like this as a piuparts error would cause more problems than it solves. If and when the test is elevated, the thousand packages will await resolution of the bug owner. -- "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien" - Voltaire -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
