[Pkg-octave-devel] Removal of octave3.2* packages

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien.villemot at ens.fr> [2012-04-18 09:43]:

> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at laboissiere.net> writes:
> 
> > Could someone, please, ask for the removal of the octave3.2* packages?
> 
> Hopefully I will do it today.

Ok, thanks.

> > I think that, after the removal, the severity level of #666501, #666732,
> > Bugs #666894, #666959, #667063, #667589, and #668830 will be raised to
> > serious.
> 
> It is not clear to me that we can raise the severity ourselves. My
> understanding is that it has to be decided by the Release Team
> (and hopefully they will).

My understanding is that the Debian Policy requires a severity level of
serious for FTBFS cases.  It does not matter who will actually raise the
severity level.  Once the octave3.2* will be removed, the listed bug
reports will, de facto, become release critical.

Rafael