Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-05-27 Thread Niels Thykier
Russ Allbery: > Holger Levsen writes: > > [...] > > Release folks, why this exception in the release policy? Are you > comfortable with Debian releasing with packages that Recommend packages > that aren't part of the release? (Have we historically done this?) > Hi, Thanks for the questions.

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-20 Thread Russ Allbery
Adrian Bunk writes: > On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:34:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I'm quite sure from past discussion that we want to be sure packages don't >> Recommend contrib or non-free packages, and don't want to re-open that. >> But that's not quite the same thing as a package that (po

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-20 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 08:34:57PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Holger Levsen writes: > > > dropping -devel@, adding -release@ and -policy@, I'm wondering if this > > should be resolved somehow...: > > > A few days ago I wrote: > >> > >if your package recommends a package which is not available,

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Holger Levsen writes: > dropping -devel@, adding -release@ and -policy@, I'm wondering if this > should be resolved somehow...: > A few days ago I wrote: >> > >if your package recommends a package which is not available, this is a >> > >normal bug, not one with RC severity (and neither an import

Re: missing recommends are not RC severity

2018-04-19 Thread Holger Levsen
hi, dropping -devel@, adding -release@ and -policy@, I'm wondering if this should be resolved somehow...: A few days ago I wrote: > > >if your package recommends a package which is not available, this is a > > >normal bug, not one with RC severity (and neither an important one). To which on Tue,