severity 428661 wishlist
tags 428661 wontfix
retitle 428661 don't like to see ubuntu mentioned in the control file
kthxbye

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 15:04:04 +0200, Marc Dequènes wrote:

> 
> reopen 428661
> thanks
> 
> > right, feel free to abuse release-critical bug severities for
> > nonexistent bugs...
> 
> Policy violation has always been severity Serious, this is not a
> personnal choice.

Actual policy violations, sure.

> 
> > Can you point at an actual problem, rather than unsubstantiated FUD?
> 
> Happilly, this is not widespread behavior, so, besides Recommends or
> Suggests on nonexistent versions or even packages, there are no real
> problems _yet_.
> 
> I see no reason why external work should be borrowed without being
> properly included.

What does that have to do with anything?  I asked you to point at an
actual bug.

> >> Moreover, this is a policy violation : "7.1 Syntax of relationship
> >
> > No it's not.
> 
> Saying so is not an argument. If you don't agree with this bug, then
> call the commity.

*sigh*

> I don't think we get much quality by being lazy. Someone forgot to
> mention the Pre-Depends un the 7.0.0-0ubuntu3 changelog entry, even if
> it is easy to guess for a DD, but we don't write it for internal Debian
> references only, so my point of view is : this should have been checked
> and recompiled. For this i don't ask anything because i know this is a
> lot of work to handle such hard packages. But for the control file
> information, i won't accept such messy information, leading to a
> situation where the version is not easily controlable, and most of all,
> would deny any possibility of automatic verifications.
> 
What kind of control and verifications are you talking about?  And what
is messy about this control file?

Cheers,
Julien

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