* Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-05-12 19:59] : > Hi Fred, > > On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:45:41AM +0200, Frédéric Bothamy wrote: > > I have recently (3 days ago) reported the RC bug #308477 for the > > libtextwrap1 package. As I have not received any answer from the > > maintainer (and there is another older important bug for which he has > > made no comments), I am wondering if: > > > - I am not totally wrong on this bug report (I am still unsure about the > > "Run-time support programs" of the 8.2 section of Debian Policy) > > - the maintainer (Tomohiro Kubota) may be MIA (from what I have found > > using debian.org website, his last message was in august 2004). > > > If both conditions are true, the source package libtextwrap would be a > > good candidate for an NMU (a patch is included in the bug report), but > > it would definitely need some more testing from a DD (removal is > > probably not an option as cdebconf depends on it). > > You are correct that it is a policy violation. However, not all policy > violations are release-critical for a given release; see > <http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt>. In particular, since there > are no other versions of libtextwrap for us to worry about conflicting with > this /usr/bin/dotextwrap binary, this bug is not RC for sarge because > nothing is broken by it in practice. Moving the binary to the -dev package > can be done just as well post-sarge whenever libtextwrap2 appears, using the > same Replaces: libtextwrap1 with no ill effects.
Yes, you are right. The exact same solution could be applied later without any ill effect, I was not sure about that. Thanks for the explanation. Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
