Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:10:44PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:18:00AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> >> Really? Have you read the message where Luk said that #!/bin/sh bugs >> >> using no POSIX features isn't RC? That just make me think one thing: >> >> "Let's release fast, whatever this means!" > >> > No, it means "Let's release at _some_ point, rather than waiting for >> > five years". It's not as if we haven't been taking this type of >> > shortcuts for woody and sarge either. > >> I disagree with you. > > Well, that makes you wrong then. The etch RC policy is directly derived > from the sarge RC policy, *with new requirements added*.
So I disagree with the Sarge policy :-D >> I fail to see where in the Constituition say's that RM team can ignore >> a Debian Policy rule. > > There's nothing in the constitution that says RMs are *bound* by policy's > definition of what is or isn't a release-critical bug, either. Neither there's something there that says RM are allowed to ignore the policy. > Anyway, it doesn't make sense to make POSIX sh an RC requirement for etch at > this stage of the release cycle, but I would be in favor of the release team > endorsing 0-day NMUs for any such bugs. I'll discuss this with Andi. If the POSIX sh affect the usability of the package it's a RC bug. It'll make the package useless to people using dash as shell, for example. See bellow: ,----[ http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.en.html#severities ] | grave | makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes | data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the | accounts of users who use the package. `---- That's my understanding of this. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://www.freedom.ind.br/otavio --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft gives you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
