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Author Re: Raising severity of Contains /usr/share/info/dir.gz if rebuilt on current sid&quo
Santiago Vila

2004-03-17, 9:43 am

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> Hello,
> About 4 months ago I digged through Debian to find all packages which
> would contain /usr/share/info/dir.gz if rebuilt (see #214769 for
> details.) and submitted (iirc) about 30 bugs (about 20 still open)
> with Severity important. Every single one of these bugs has patch.
>
> I.e. any of these package has a RC bug if it is recompieled without
> fixing this bug. Today an NMU happened (anubis) which did exactly
> this. To stop this from happening again I want to raise the severity
> to serious, but not without asking here, I have CCed release but want
> discussion to happen on -devel.


Please go ahead.

Those bugs are really time bombs. I don't want to think about what
will happen if any of those packages need an upload for
security.debian.org once sarge has been released as stable.


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Santiago Vila

2004-03-17, 4:39 pm

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, Josip Rodin wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 12:37:26PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>
> Um, how? What could possibly be bothered by dir.old*?


Another dir.old.gz in another package having the same bug.

This bug has a nasty property: A single package with this bug may be
difficult to notice and even "almost harmless". It is two or more
packages having this bug what is really catastrophic.

Since a package has not more "right" than others to be "the single one
package having this bug", we can't do anything but treat all these bugs
with the same RC severity.


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