On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, José Luis González wrote: > If you still don't understand, imagine that a text is mistakenly > introduced in the Policy and it causes a RC bug. How should this bug > about the Policy be reported? According to the Policy Manual:
It should be filed against debian-policy with the appropriate severity. > If the error is reported to the list it can remain and the package > with the erroneous policy be released if it is included in the > package and the Policy isn't amended before. That assumes that the people reading the list won't file the appropriate bug on the appropriate package. I never known that not to be the case. > If the error is reported to the Bug Tracking System we are in a > similar case as with the mailing list. Only if a mantainer raises > severity of the debian-policy *package* to serious would the bug be > considered as RC. If the bug is actually RC, someone has to recognize it as such and raise the severity. This isn't a serious problem for packages such as -policy which are watched by loads of people, and if a package isn't watched by people who know, then the bug probably isn't going to seriously affect the release anyway. Don Armstrong -- Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious. -- Fredrick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man Month http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
