Hi Dne Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:34:28 +0100 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> napsal(a):
> So we should just ignore blatant policy violation until the moment they > do bite us in the ass? So we wait until the verry last moment when > everything would be ready to use multiarch and then we freeze squeeze > before package can be fixed to be multiarch compatible? > > And by the way. We had basic multiarch support before sarge. This is > not "before". This is after it has already killed multiarch for 2 > stable releases. If we don't get things moving in parallel it will > never be ready for squeeze either. How about first providing list of affected packages (processed through dd-list)? I'm pretty sure that many issues will be fixed just after you point them out, just the maintainer was not aware of this problem. PS: This also looks to me like good candidate for lintian test, have you considered also this option? -- Michal Čihař | http://cihar.com | http://blog.cihar.com
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