On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:58:09AM +0100, Daniel Kobras wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:59:08PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > You're right that this bug is not a policy violation; this is a "grave" bug, > > which is the severity for bugs that render a package "unusable or mostly > > so". We should not be releasing unusable binaries for any architecture; > > either the binaries for all big-endian architectures will need to be > > removed, or the bug fixed, for kino to be included in sarge.
> I disagree. One of several display methods is broken. So is one of > several export methods. That does not sound unusable to me. (kino indeed > is mostly unusable on anything but x86 because libdv is dog slow on > these archs, but that's another matter.) If it really only affects one of several export methods and one of several display methods, then I agree with you that it isn't grave. The submitter's mail wasn't all that clear that other methods do work, only that certain methods that he tried did not. If you know for certain that the main functionality of kino is available on powerpc, then feel free to downgrade this bug. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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