Bug#384324: [Pkg-gnutls-maint] Bug#384324: libtasn1-3-bin - important, conflicts against important package

[Steve Langasek]

reassign 384324 ftp.debian.org
severity 384324 important
retitle 384324 please lower the override priority for libtasn1-3-bin and libtasn1-2-bin
thanks

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:07:23PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> On (23/08/06 18:58), Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 04:05:49PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> > > Can I ask how this should have been handled, as the two packages provide
> > > the same files, but a security bug prompted an API change, hence the new
> > > package?

> > Why is this package important at all? It barely fullfills the
> > conditions.

> I'm not sure it should be. The source package is Priority: Important,
> and there is no Priority: for the binary package. Maybe we should change
> this on the next upload.

Yes, please do so, but more importantly the override needs to be changed in
the archive; let's reassign this bug to ftp.debian.org.

> > > Is it satisfactory for this bug to wait and be resolved by the removal
> > > of -2?

> > If you are going to request removal now, it is okay. The problem that
> > debootstrap only supports that as it simply discards it and cdebootstrap
> > choke on it.

> We ant to request removal ASAP, however, there are 4 packages with
> binary dependencies, and so require a binNMU. Two of these require a
> sourceful upload however as they are not binNMU safe.

Which ones aren't binNMU-safe?

Cheers,
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