Control: severity -1 important On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 03:25:44PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > * Peter Pentchev [Thu Apr 28, 2016 at 01:28:54PM +0300]: > > Package: qemubuilder > > Version: 0.79 > > Severity: grave > > Tags: patch > > What's the rational for marking this as grave? > > (Asking because packages like jenkins-debian-glue are marked for > autoremoval because of their dependency on qemubuilder [related] > packages and this bug report doesn't look like it would satisfy > severity grave to me)
Indeed, this should not be grave: > grave > makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes > data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the > accounts of users who use the package. > > serious > is a severe violation of Debian policy (roughly, it violates a > must or required directive), or, in the package maintainer's or > release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for > release. > > important > a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package, > without rendering it completely unusable to everyone. I class this as important. It does not make the package "completely unusable to everyone", as it only affects updating. There is a very simple workaround: re-create the image. Regards, James
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