package yaird severity 382788 wishlist tags 382788 confirmed thanks On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:03:22 +0200 maximilian attems wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 07:31:48PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > > > How do any of the above make this bug release-critical? > > > > No need to waste time writing long explanation to get it through my > > thick skull, just point me to relevant policy definition or > > release-team statement, please. > > triple woow. > you have boot failures due to not parsing kernel bootargs? Thank you for the (non-)reference. I find no evidence of this bug being "a severe violation of Debian policy". Neither does it "in the package maintainer's opinion [make] the package unsuitable for release." More specifically, describing ways to abuse the package beyond its documented limitations is not (by itself) a violation of policy. I consider this bug "very difficult to fix due to major design considerations." I agree with Sven that it is not very difficult to add limited support, but truly fixing this bug is, I believe, simply outside the design of the tool. I thus lower severity to wishlist. I welcome patches to (partly, even, as Sven suggests) fix this bug. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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