Dear all, before it exploeds. 1st it would be easy to implement. 2nd there is an updated package removing the provides:
http://sid.ethz.ch/debian/term Kind regards, Gürkan Tel. 076 436 72 00 > On Jan 16, 2017, at 11:16, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > <glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote: > >> On 01/16/2017 04:32 AM, Ben Longbons wrote: >> It's a violation of Policy, so the severity is mandated. > > If we started filing RC bugs against every package in Debian now which > somehow violates the policy, we'd probably end up removing half of > the packages from the archive from testing. > > And if you really think that this bug warrants a removal of the package from > testing and therefore not releasing it with Stretch, why aren't you providing > a patch to resolve the issue? > > The version of this package in Debian hasn't changed since 2012 and popcon > claims, there are 733 reported users of this package. I don't think we should > take this package away from these users for Stretch just because it doesn't > fully adhere to the Debian Policy. > > There is neither a security problem nor any potential loss of data, the > package > is simply not 100% compliant with the Debian Policy which I don't think is > an actual problem for anyone using the package given the fact that it took > four years since the last upload for someone to detect the problem and > file a bug report. > > However, I'm happy to sponsor an NMU if you're willing to provide a patch. > > Thanks, > Adrian > > -- > .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz > : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org > `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de > `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 > > _______________________________________________ > Debian GNUstep maintainers mailing list > pkg-gnustep-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-gnustep-maintainers >
