On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:29:20PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> tags 295375 + etch-ignore
> thanks
>
> Just to say the obvious: With my authority as Release Manager, I say
> this bug is not release critical.
>
> * Adrian Bunk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [070120 18:16]:
> > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:55:59PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > ... which happen to be built from the gpsd source package. Sorry, I
> > > don't see a reason why this is RC. (In case the gpsd source package is
> > > uploaded with a different version, it isn't any issue to also touch the
> > > clients-package.)
>
> > The problem is that if you'd only upgrade gpsd but not gpsd-clients,
> > this would break gpsd-clients. This is _exactly_ the same problem as
> > with gaia.
>
> Surely it won't be too hard to provide a conflicts for a binary package
> inside the same source package, right? (I usually don't mind for such
> stuff inside of one source package, and I don't mind if another package
> is not part of the stable release.)
There are many ways to fix this bug.
But you seem to be only interested in getting this bug out of your RC
bugs metric instead of kicking the maintainer to fix his buggy or to do
a simple NMU for fixing this bug.
Poor Debian.
> Cheers,
> Andi
cu
Adrian
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