Bug#818148: bullet: Out of memory errors do not make the build to stop

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 04:26:54PM +0100, Markus Koschany wrote:

> I suggest that you calm down a little. It is obvious that you disagree
> with my assessment but that does not justify your aggressiveness and
> your actions.
>
> For the record: As the main uploader of this package I strongly disagree
> with your bug severity. The package is not affected and the
> documentation is complete, all images are present as expected. Just
> because the images are not generated with graphviz on a low memory
> system does not make this a release critical issue. The build system
> clearly told you that your memory is insufficient and that you should
> rerun graphviz. If you ignore those error messages and my advice, then I
> am unable to help you.
> 
> Please avoid changing the bug severity again but feel free to forward
> this issue to Debian's Technical Committee after having slept over it.

A lot of talk, but not a single word about Policy 4.6.

Fine, not changing the severity again, but I hope that you reconsider,
or maybe just hope not everybody in the Debian Games Team share the
same "algorithm" for setting severities, where a policy "must"
requirement becomes merely an "improvement suggestion" and wishlist.