Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: > Simon Josefsson [16/Aug 1:51pm +02] wrote: >> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Simon Josefsson [16/Aug 1:30pm +02] wrote: >>>> Sean Whitton <[email protected]> writes: >>>> >>>>> Well, Policy requirements define what's release critical in general >>>> >>>> Where/How? Adding the term 'release critical' to where the concept is >>>> defined in Policy is what the bug report is about. >>> >>> You quoted the text where Policy requirements are defined. Basically, >>> 'must' and 'should'. >> >> The text is: >> >> The terms must and must not, and the adjectives required and >> prohibited, denote strong requirements. Packages that do not conform >> to these requirements will generally not be considered acceptable for >> the Debian distribution. These statements correspond to the critical, >> grave, and serious bug severities (normally serious). They are >> collectively called Policy requirements. >> >> It is the third sentence: >> >> These statements correspond to the critical, grave, and serious bug >> severities (normally serious) >> >> that I believe carry a simple definition of 'release critical'. > > How about we just append a parenthetical (the release-critical severities)?
Something like this? Adding one paranthetical after another looks a bit weird, so I'm not sure what you meant. /Simon
From 68c63b01e11629b516ecd9c16f8832bbbdea8ac7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:36:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mention term 'release critical' (Closes: #1144046) --- policy/ch-scope.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/policy/ch-scope.rst b/policy/ch-scope.rst index a279c26..3be90a5 100644 --- a/policy/ch-scope.rst +++ b/policy/ch-scope.rst @@ -37,9 +37,10 @@ describe the importance of each statement: [#]_ * The terms *must* and *must not*, and the adjectives *required* and *prohibited*, denote strong requirements. Packages that do not conform to these requirements will generally not be considered acceptable for - the Debian distribution. These statements correspond to the *critical*, - *grave*, and *serious* bug severities (normally serious). They are - collectively called *Policy requirements*. + the Debian distribution. These statements correspond to the + release-critical bug severities *critical*, *grave*, and *serious* + (normally serious). They are collectively called *Policy + requirements*. [#]_ * The terms *should* and *should not*, and the adjective *recommended*, denote best practices. Non-conformance with these guidelines will -- 2.54.0
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