Re: Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-28 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:11:35PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: The decision of whether a bug is release-critical or not is for the release managers to make, using the various properties of the bug (including but *not* limited to its severity) as input to that decision. They can, in fact, make

Re: Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-27 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote: So, it's not correct for anyone but a release manager to decide “this bug is/is not release-critical, so I'll change the severity”; that is a perversion of the meaning of the severity field. That's not quite true. See below. You can argue about whether

Processed: Re: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: package general Ignoring bugs not assigned to: general reassign 509732 doc-debian Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs Bug reassigned from package `general' to `doc-debian'. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me

Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-26 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
package general reassign 509732 doc-debian thanks José Luis González wrote: This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is archived (please see

Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-26 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
José Luis González jlgon...@ya.com writes: System. This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is archived (please see bug #227941.) Since the

Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-26 Thread José Luis González
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:13:54 +0200 Kalle Kivimaa kil...@debian.org wrote: José Luis González jlgon...@ya.com writes: Why on earth would #227941 be anything but a wishlist? It is very easy to reopen an archived bug, all you need to do is unarchive it first. It is indeed a wishlist. Please, see

Re: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, José Luis González wrote: If a problem is RC, it should be marked as RC. If the BTS manages pseudopackages, a bug in a pseudopackage that is RC should be marked as RC in the BTS. The BTS has nothing to do with deciding whether particular bugs are release critical or not.

Bug severity and release-critical status (was: Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs)

2008-12-26 Thread Ben Finney
Don Armstrong d...@debian.org writes: On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, José Luis González wrote: If a problem is RC, it should be marked as RC. If the BTS manages pseudopackages, a bug in a pseudopackage that is RC should be marked as RC in the BTS. The BTS has nothing to do with deciding whether

Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-25 Thread José Luis González
Package: general Severity: important The Debian Policy Manual doesn't feature the Debian Bug Tracking System. This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices

Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs

2008-12-25 Thread José Luis González
This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is archived (please see bug #227941.) Since the problem is only specific to that bug, it would