On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 04:17:23PM -0400, Boruch Baum wrote: > I recently submitted what I considered a 'grave' bugreport to > debian[1], which had its severity downgraded to 'wishlist' and its > title changed, all because of systemd, which I suspect is irrelevant > to my report.
The severity of 'grave' is indeed inappropriate. But so is 'wishlist': the bug makes the package mostly useless to a non-negligible set of users. Thus, I'd say it should be 'important'. As such, it is eligible for a freeze exception if the Release Team agrees. On the other hand, the maintainer has a lion's share of the right to decide such matters, I see little chances to push such changes over a maintainer's head. But, Eric Dorland did not say a single word about this matter yet. The fight so far was between you (reporter) and John Paul Glaubitz (a third party). Thus, I'd recommend talking to Eric instead of complaining elsewhere. But, merely reporting the issue would make you look like a nuisance after being already swatted away by someone. Providing a tested patch _massively_ increases your chances to get the fix in, at least as long as the maintainer is not hostile (and I have no reason yet to suspect Eric of that). And making that patch a debdiff would also satisfy the requirement the Release Team has (all freeze exception requests need to come with debdiffs). As you have already investigated the bug and written an init script, preparing such a patch should be only minor effort. And if the patch doesn't get to stretch, not a single bit of your work would be wasted: there's both buster and ascii... On the third hand, though, the package appears to be very niche, which makes it pretty low priority... > [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=857322 -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Meow! ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Collisions shmolisions, let's see them find a collision or second ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ preimage for double rot13! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
