Re: Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-26 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Shaun Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even though it builds on AMD64. Since it turns out this package has never worked on AMD64, this bug is not a regression,

Re: Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:30:16AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even though it builds on AMD64. Since it turns out this package has never worked on AMD64, this bug

Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-25 Thread Shaun Jackman
A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even though it builds on AMD64. Since it turns out this package has never worked on AMD64, this bug is not a regression, but the status-quo. Should such a bug be

Re: Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-25 Thread sean finney
hi shaun, perhaps someone else will be able to answer this more authoritatively but in the meantime... On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:30:16AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never

Re: Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Shaun Jackman] A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even though it builds on AMD64. Since it turns out this package has never worked on AMD64, this bug is not a regression, but the status-quo.

Re: Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:30:16AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even though it builds on AMD64. Since it turns out this package has never worked on AMD64, this bug

Re: Severity of architecture-dependent bugs

2006-02-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:08:00PM -0500, sean finney wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 11:30:16AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: A grave bug has been file against a package I maintain pointing out that the package does not work on AMD64 and in fact never has, even though it builds on AMD64.