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What is the argument against putting it into debian? I am not familiar with RC.

• steveklabnik 16y ago
  I'm not an absolute authority on this, but Debian is very conservative with packages, especially on non-testing releases. I believe the problem in this instance was that the bug, while serious, wasn't fixed until the next major version of gnumed, and so they generally wouldn't update the package. Due to the severity, this is a plea for an exception. That's my rough understanding.
• raphman 16y ago
  Debian has just entered a hard package freeze to prepare for the next release (Squeeze). This means that no new packages may transition from "unstable" (where they are uploaded to) into "testing" (which will become the next stable release soon). If a package in testing has a release-critical (RC) bug, the release managers may make an exception and allow a new, bug-fixed upload to transition into testing. If this is not deemed sensible, the package is completely removed from testing until Squeeze has been released. The package will still be available in unstable.
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