On 2008-12-20, David Paleino <d.pale...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >Hello, >> >trying to look at RC bugs, I just stumbled upon this one. >> >IMHO it's not severity serious, since binary packages are built in clean >> >chroots. Hence you don't have wx2.6 installed, but just the Build-Deps, = > i.e. >> >wx2.8. >> >It's still "important", because it fails on non-clean chroots, i.e. when >> >building on "normal" boxes. >>=20 >> I don't agree with your arguing. Serious is defined as "severe violation >> of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a "must" or "required" >> directive)". Debian policy 7.7 says:=20 >> |Build-Depends, Build-Conflicts >> | The Build-Depends and Build-Conflicts fields must be satisfied when >> |any of the following targets is invoked: build, clean, binary, >> |binary-arch, build-arch, build-indep and binary-indep. >> It does not mention a clean chroot. Afaik it also violates the policy if >> a packages build in fully installed chroot ist linked against >> more/different libraries than the same package build in a clean chroot.
Up to the etch release, I asked release people wether missing build-dependencies was release critical. They said no. I think I also have asked them in the last 6 months and got similar answer, but I'm not as sure about that as it wasn't involving one of my packages, but general rc bug work. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
