Paul Wise writes:
> I am missing the justification for the last paragraph of Debian Policy
> section 2.5. I feel that it may have been due to a limitation of our
> tools in the past and that these days there are zero downsides to this
> situation (debootstrap/etc handle it fine) so we should prob
Am 31.08.2014 17:58, schrieb Paul Wise:
> There is also a downside to raising priorities in this way; raising
> the priority of dependencies of higher-priority packages means that if
> implementations of higher-priority packages change and the (now higher
> priority) dependencies are no longer need
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> The problem that set off this entire discussion is the question of whether
> we want to raise the priority of perl, perl-modules, and
> init-system-helpers to important to match rsyslog, move the Perl modules
> used by init-system-helpers to p
Gerrit Pape writes:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 09:30:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Also, I'll reiterate what I said on debian-policy on this topic: the
>> current Policy discussion of priorities is deceptive, since it implies
> I don't think the discussion on the issue I raised is deceptive
]] Gerrit Pape
> When having such bugs filed, and the release team decides they shall not
> be release critical, this shall be made public, the severities of
> corresponding bugs adjusted, and everything is fine and transparent.
> Currently I'm not aware of such a release team's decision.
You mi
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 09:30:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Gerrit Pape writes:
> > [0] Actually policy 2.5 requires to additionally file a RC bug to the
> > high priority package with the added dependency to prevent it from being
> > migrated to testing until the override decision has been ma
Gerrit Pape writes:
> [0] Actually policy 2.5 requires to additionally file a RC bug to the
> high priority package with the added dependency to prevent it from being
> migrated to testing until the override decision has been made.
Policy does not address RC bugs at all. The determination of wh
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