[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#449440: severity is important

[Andreas Tille]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

>>     a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without
>>     rendering it completely unusable to everyone.
>
> Precisely, that's what it does.

No, definitely not.  The package is perfectly usable in the distribution
it is intended for.  You can not blame a package to be unusable in a
different distribution it was not intended for.

> If that's so I would like to withdraw 0.2.7.1 from Testing.

Even this would not help.  Reuploading 0.2.7.0 to unstable and then
testing would lead to the consequence that you have to rebuild the
package with the current building tools.  The effect would be that
even 0.2.7.0 would stop working on Etch.  What you can do is to pick
a package from

    http://snapshot.debian.net/package/gnumed-client

> I don't in the least ask for a new version of GNUmed in
> Debian/Stable. First of all I ask for a consistent
> explanation of why gnumed-client 0.2.7.1 cannot be installed
> into a Stable system while 0.2.7.0 can.

Because a package depends from the python-support version it was
compiled against.

> The only dependancy change between those two versions was
> #447405 which removed python-pgsql and added
> python-psycopg2.
>
> Would that be the reason ?

No.

> If so I wish to revert that fix because it worked before
> that - the fix was merely cosmetic.

As I said, that would not help.

Kind regards

          Andreas.

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