[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#677721: Processed: severity of 677721 is serious

[Andrey Rahmatullin]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 09:35:42AM +0100, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>   If you feel brave enough to do an upload of dcmtk, please feel free
> to do so. I do not know exactly what is the impact of this patch, esp.
> at this point in time (=during freeze).
> 
>   I honestly do believe the severity is important
http://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt 5(f)
"Shared libraries must normally be linked with all libraries they use symbols from."

So it's serious without taking other things into consideration.

> since upstream explicitly link all dcmtk libs when compiling there
> executables.
Well, otherwise it would be grave, not serious.

> So debian is just making it easier for our users :)
Do you mean other packages that use the libraries? Then it's not "making
easier", it's "making it work without additional crutches", and #694846 is
an example of a bug that was already caused by this bug and worked around
by overlinking, instead of fixing the core issue.

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WBR, wRAR
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