severity 308848 serious
thanks

On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 05:53:04PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Is this really a serious bug?  The package built just fine for me, but
> I already had a java compiler installed.  I had a look in the debian
> policy, but didn't find any requirement that a package _must_ have a
> none-virtual package in addition to a virtual package.  I know it is a
> good idea to do so, to make sure the autobuilders pick the same
> package to fill the dependency, but it isn't required by policy.

>From http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt

        Packages must autobuild without failure on all architectures on
        which they are supported.

It failed to build on a few arches, see: 
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=postgis

Unless you can convice me that the arches on which it failed are
not supported, this is an RC bug.


Kurt



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