On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 04:52:36PM +0100, James Clarke wrote: > 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.
Agreed... although most of my images are more or less customized. Still, yes, there is a workaround and in most cases it is simple, so, yes, severity "important" is fine. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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