[Holger Levsen] > "I believe this problem is really really important and needs to be > fixed and I don't care if the solution breaks basic assumptions like > that a .deb can be rebuild from .dsc and orig.tar.gz alone" is not > useful neither.
I am sorry you fail to see the usefulness of this approach. It is useful because it provide a _working solution_ to the problem. > If policy is just a handwaver which we can break whenever we "need" > to solve shortterm problems, it's worthless. I am also sorry you see it this way. I believe the policy has value even if it has to be "handwaved" when we need to solve short term issues. Besides, you seem to believe that the archive policy as written block us from including packages that have problems. It does not state this, it states "normally we accept only packages which are also part of Debian", and I claim that this case is exceptional, as in not normal. I believe I will leave this for others to evaluate and follow up, and focus on other issues for now. I have made a solution to this release critical issue available, and as far as I can see it is the best option we have among the bad ones we have available. As I wrote in my initial email, I believe it is a worse solution to just copy the tarballs into the DVD, for variuos reasons. If anyone find a new option in addition to the two I have sketched that is better than this proposal, I am all for it, but until anyone do that, I suggest we go ahead with this exceptional solution for Lenny. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
