Re: Interesting comments

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 08:52 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:


> > Ah. There's a program that is supposed to respond to button-presses on a 
> > scanner. buttond or some such.
>
> > Its presence doesn't much affect the release, but in the context of 
> > _that application_ I'd classify it as critical, a release blocker and 
> > simply omit it unless someone (the packager?) actually tested it and 
> > made it work.
>
> Well, I'd classify it as priority low, severity critical. I don't see
> why it should block a release. Sure, it's crappy code, but it's not

It wouldn't block the release of anything more than itself;-)


> likely to cause anyone any particularly massive inconvenience. I'd
> rather have the non-infinite amount of resources we have to spend on
> prioritizing release-critical issues spent on things that will
> significantly inconvenience large amounts of people. But now we're
> getting into specifics rather than procedure, which is a different
> debate.


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Cheers
John

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