On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 16:13 +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > However, your announcement seems to assume these only concerned kernel > packages. This leaves the message open to interpretation, it could mean > any of the following: > > - You assume the release team no longer intends to ignore DFSG violations > for these packages. > > - The RT gets an exception for kernel packages, as they intended, but not > for the rest of Debian. > > - The developers are implicitly endorsing an exception for the rest of > Debian packages. > > Please, could you send a new message clarifiing the situation, and your > judgement as Secretary?
It is my opinion that the text of the winning GR option says nothing explicit about any of the bugs currently tagged lenny-ignore except those relating to firmware blobs. However, analysis of the voting results in this and prior GRs relating to similar issues in prior releases indicates to me that Debian developers in general would prefer to release with faults than to defer release until some arbitrary level of perfection is achieved. Particularly when there is general agreement that a new release is superior both technically and with regard to overall freedom than what we've previously released. Note in particular that option 1 was soundly defeated, and all "release with warts" options were voted ahead of FD. I therefore believe the release team currently has at least the implicit support of the project to proceed with Lenny release. Equally clear to me in the results is that developers want to uphold the terms of the SC. I base this on the ranking of options that explicitly mention the SC, and on the fact that none of them could achieve a supermajority. Thus, I'm personally disappointed every time we have to go through this sort of discussion. It would be nice to just fix the bugs instead of arguing endlessly about whether it's ok to release with them still present. Therefore, I am working right now to address at least two of the non-kernel bugs currently tagged as lenny-ignore (211765 and 368559), and I would encourage anyone else who feels strongly about these issues to similarly focus their attention on providing solutions to the root causes of the remaining bugs in question: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=lenny-ignore I hope this helps. Bdale -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-vote-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
