Bug#620686: #620686 - document how to deal with technically negligent developers

Bill Allombert <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:02:42 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
Message-ID <ajE7YtZX41Z6JZ1p__8757.13460134051$1781611529$gmane$org@seventeen>
On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 09:16:58AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> hi zack & serafi,
> 
> zack, 15 years ago you reported #620686 and now serafi thankfully
> wrote a patch, which I applaud, however I'm not entirely sure whether
> it's not a bit too harsh, thus I would like a comment from you...
> 
> (I fear that people could use this paragraph (as it is) to justify
> reporting people for a few mistakes and I also wonder whether the 
> community should be mentioned in this paragraph as well.)

I agree with Holger, this does not match current practice.
In practice packages are marked RC-buggy and removed from testing.

Cheers,