Debian packages are prioritised

Debian packages are prioritised

Posted Oct 11, 2006 22:52 UTC (Wed) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
In reply to: Again, the needs of a reorganization of the whole project by DiegoCG
Parent article: Debian etch freeze to be delayed

> the huge number of packages implies that it's just not possible to
> release a RC-free release.

Certainly it is possible. You may be misunderstanding what it means to say that a bug is "release-critical": it is not that the *release* is in jeopardy of releasing, but that the *package* is in jeapordy of not being included with the release.

If a bug on a package is considered release-critical, one of the ways of resolving that status is to omit that package from the release. This is the last resort in cases where the bug cannot be closed (or, in a few cases, determined no longer to be high severity) in time for the release.

> It's just not fair and not productive to consider that all packages have
> the same priority.

If Debian did treat all packages the same, that sounds like the *definition* of fair treatment to me :-)

As it happens, though, Debian does prioritise packages: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-pri...

It is these priorities that lead to different attitudes when the time comes to decide on the omission of a package from a release.

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