Control: severity -1 important On Wed, 6 Sep 2017 10:52:32 +0100 Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.pro> wrote: > > According to policy > > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz > > "Non-conformance with > guidelines denoted by _should_ (or _recommended_) will generally be > considered a bug, but will not necessarily render a package unsuitable > for distribution." > > and further down: > > "If your package needs to know what hostname to use on (for example) > outgoing news and mail messages which are generated locally, you > should use the file `/etc/mailname'. It will contain the portion > after the username and `@' (at) sign for email addresses of users on > the machine (followed by a newline)." > > Note that policy uses the word "should" for mailname, so wishlist doesn't > appear to be a suitable severity for this issue. > > [...] >
I am downgrading to important. While I agree this is not a wishlist item, "should" is not sufficient to consider it sufficiently important to potentially block a release (and nor is the fact that it affects new installations either). Thanks, ~Niels
