On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:45:24PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > If you're strongly attached to (cluttering up my maintainer view and) > tracking every issue in the debian bug tracking system (I'd instead > recommend you use the upstream bug tracker), then I'd welcome > a bug report with severity minor. Minor is in my opinion the correct > severity for such an issue.
I'm only attached to ensuring that Debian packages build ok and without failures (release policy), so I have to decline your suggestion to use the upstream bug tracker, as that will not make the Debian package to build ok 100% of the time again. If you think this is not RC, you can always ask for permission to use sarge-ignore here (you could ask in the same report if it's ok for them to disable the test). IMO, disabling the test would be just a way to follow release policy, which says "packages must build without failures". If you plan to downgrade instead, please consider these two bugs as well: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839444 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=811068 The three bugs are FTBFS which happen randomly. The package usually builds fine in the official autobuilders (but not always), and the FTBFS problem could be avoided trivially by disabling one or more tests. It would be really strange to downgrade one of those bugs and not the others. Before doing so, please try to reach a consensus inside the GNOME team about what should be done with all those bugs. Thanks.