On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 02:43:57PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 18. August 2011, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > severity 617896 minor
> > thanks
> 
> why do you think fullfilling a release goal (=a piuparts clean archive) is a 
> minor bug?

 Because piuparts tests in this case something extremely theoretical.

> I wont play bts pingpong but "minor severity" is certainly wrong. (but as 
> long 
> as you fix this bug I dont care...)

 No, it isn't "certainly" wrong, otherwise I wouldn't have set it that
way. Please read again my reasoning.

> >  If you insist I though could add a
> > "rmdir /var/lib/gitolite 2>/dev/null || true" into the postrm,
> 
> as said on irc, yes, I insist.

 Actually, the more I think about it, I think that's not a good idea,
and doing something because someone "insists" on it doesn't make me
wanna do it, especially when there is no real reason attached to it.

> > which
> > would make piuparts but play next to no role for real use cases of the
> > package when people do fill in data in the debconf questions.
> 
> a real use case is that people install gitolite, dont use it, and purge it. 
> then the system should be clean, thats what people expect from Debian.

 Right, and a single directory isn't that unclean.

> cheers,
>       Holger, who really dont get why people think policy is not for them

 Because actually, this is no policy violation?  If you really want to
throw around such catch phrases then you are only doing yourself a
disservice.

 kthxbye,
Rhonda



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