On Wed, 1 Mar 2017, Olly Betts wrote:
It sure would be nice to get rid of this warning which will otherwise be
around for the duration of stretch. You don't think it's worth filing a
freeze exception?
Severity "minor" means it doesn't meet the criteria:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/11/msg00009.html
True, but as I read the bug severity levels, it could be classified as
serious as a matter of maintainer opinion: "... or, in the package
maintainer's or release manager's opinion, makes the package unsuitable
for release."