Ian Jackson writes: > IMO the way to read "is a bug RC" is "if the bug is not fixed, would > Debian be better without the package, than with the buggy package". > This calls for weighing the harm caused by the bug to the people > affected, against the benefit of the package to other users. > > In this case I think the class of affected users is big enough - and > there are generally enough alternatives - that the bug ought to be RC. > If the packages are removed from Debian, then those users will be > guided by our installation and package selection tools to other, > working, software.
If we treated architectures in the same way, I wonder if we would have any architecture other than amd64... After all that will guide our users to other, working, architectures. (No, I don't find "let's just drop Qt/GNOME/X11/ncurses" a very useful approach and I don't think it is very productive to suggest to do so. More the opposite.) Ansgar
