Bug#821409: Processed: severity of 821409 is important

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2016 at 12:52:36AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi Adrian

Hi Michael,

> Am 02.07.2016 um 00:30 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> > At least one bug in src:gtk+3.0 really has to stay RC when an upgrade of 
> > this library causes widespread breakage at the level of "all toolbar 
> > icons in emacs disappeared" - I cannot imagine any scenario where
> > such a widespread breakage would not be considered a blocker for
> > a release, and having a "release critical" bug makes that visible.
> 
> The point is, that this isn't really a bug in gtk+3.0, i.e. something
> which can be fixed in gtk+3.0 itself.

Part of the fix has to be in the gtk+3.0 packages:

There must be Breaks on the unfixed versions of the packages that need 
fixing after they are fixed - otherwise partial upgrades and testing 
users might still observe the problem, and this also makes it easier
for distributions like Ubuntu to avoid non-working package
combinations.

> By bumping this bug to RC, this
> bug will show up for all users e.g. via apt-listbugs, even if they don't
> use emacs (or one of the 3rd party themes). I don't think we really want
> that.

Why do you not want that?

I worked around the problem on my computer by manually downgrading
to 3.18 and not planning to upgrade again before all this got fixed.

Everything that warns users will reduce the number of users who 
discover this the hard way.

> Regards,
> Michael

cu
Adrian

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