On Sun, 31 Oct 2004, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > Bug 278820 complains that libvips7.8-tools and deliver both install > /usr/bin/header. The poster set the severity of this bug to > "critical" justified by its breaking unrelated software. Although I > agree this bug is very important and must be resolved, I don't think > this is release-critical: libvips7.8-tools doesn't in fact break > unrelated software, though this problem does prevent deliver and > libvips7.8-tools from being installed together. > > If I hadn't switched from sendmail to exim, I suppose I would have > caught this myself. > > If the release team agrees or if no one replies to this message within > a few days, I'm going to downgrade the bug to important. Anyway, a > non-beta release of vips7.10 is within the next couple of days. If it > makes it in before the freeze, I'm going to request removal of 7.8 > anyway.
I agree that it's not "severity: critical", but according to http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt the package should not be part of sarge, so please do not downgrade the bug to a severity lower than "serious".
