* Steve M. Robbins <st...@sumost.ca>, 2010-07-28, 21:04:
serious is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.(from http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer) It's a bug, but not a violation of any policy that I can think of. I'm willing to be persuaded otherwise. What makes it "serious" in your eyes?
Normally I would just apply common sense, but if you insist that it's OK to release an uninstallable package, here you go: http://release.debian.org/squeeze/rc_policy.txt, point 4:
"Packages must autobuild without failure on all architectures on which they are supported. [...] Packages are assumed to be supported on all architectures for which they have previously built successfully."
P.S. Can you help me debug the build failure? It only failed on that one architecture, "armel". The same code (version 3.18.0-2) built on armel in May.
No, sorry, I have no idea. Please contact armel porters. -- Jakub Wilk
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