On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:52:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Well, it's an RC bug (violation of the must in Policy 9.3.2) for the > > stop action of an init script to fail if the daemon is not running, > > which is fairly serious. I think it could well warrant a stable update > > if it's causing problems for upgrades to lenny. > Actually, I take that back -- it's not on the lenny RC bug list, so it's > possibly not an RC bug. It would be if Policy and the release goals were > synchronized and the must stayed in that case, but it's ambiguous right > now. If this truly shouldn't be RC, Policy should be changed to make sane > init script behavior a should instead. It was ambiguous before the latest policy commit because reasonable people could disagree about what "sane" behavior of an init script was, but in practice, bugs that prevent a package from being upgradeable (such as missing conflicts/replaces, broken maintainer scripts that fail to handle the previous package version, etc.) have always been considered de facto RC in the past, regardless of whether they're policy violations. I don't see any evidence that the release team has changed this practice for lenny. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
