Control: severity -1 grave On Fri, 2014-09-19 at 11:57 +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > Hi, > > It seems Josh didn't receive this message. Adding him to CC accordingly. > > On 19.09.2014 10:24, Tobias Frost wrote: > > Control: serverity -1 important > > > > Hi Josh, > > > > while this bug may be annoying, it does not justifty a grave severity, as it > > does NOT render the package useless. > > > > Please see https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities > > > > Therefore downgrading. > > > > -- > > tobi > > > I think in this case the bug submitter is right because this bug affects > all widescreen setups including my own and I suspect most people use a > widescreen ratio nowadays. So for all those people this bug is a > show-stopper. > > In addition there are multiple other issues with this package which are > described in more detail at > > https://bugs.debian.org/692221 > > In my opinion those are almost all serious problems which make the > package "unfit to release" at least. Fortunately Hans de Goede has also > setup a Git repository with patches, including a patch for #748525. > > https://github.com/kthakore/pangzero > > https://github.com/kthakore/pangzero/commit/bc3e77823772e8f87f50142778f8e6fe44badfb3 > > I suggest we package his version and work on a new release to fix all > those issues but raise the severity to RC again until the package is in > a usable state again. > > Markus >
With that addtional information I agree -- in combination, its too buggy to be in Jessie... So raising again; Of course, I'd prefer to see the maintainers to preparing the new version, but in case I will also sponsor an NMU. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
