[Pkg-sql-ledger-discussion] Bug#749347: ledgersmb: fails to install: severity?

[RJ Clay]

On 05/31/2014 05:02 PM, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi RJ,
>
> On Samstag, 31. Mai 2014, RJ Clay wrote:
>>> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install. As
>>> per definition of the release team this makes the package too buggy for
>>> a release, thus the severity.
>>      I would appreciate if you could point out what "definition"  is
>> being referred to there.
> the very basic assumption (and requirement) that any package can be installed
> and removed cleanly, spelled out in
> https://release.debian.org/jessie/rc_policy.txt and there 5a:
>
> 	Packages in the archive must not be so buggy or out of date that we
> 	refuse to support them.
>
> Failing to install is too buggy to support in a stable release according to
> the release team.

    So it's strictly the install issue here?   Makes sense...

    Next upload will have the fix for it;  now that I have a working 
setup for piuparts and have the test as done in the bug report passing, 
just need to finish testing the other possibilities.




RJ Clay
jame at rocasa.us