On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 09:53:13AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
On 30/05/2025 at 13:01, Colin Watson wrote:
If it's a non-trivial bug, why did you file it as Severity: minor?
https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities - "a problem which
doesn't affect the package's usefulness, and is presumably trivial
to fix". It's usually for things like typos.
I am no expert in bug severity assessment, and it seems to me that the
bug matches the above definition quite well: it does not affect
parted's overall usefulness, affects only uncommon use cases (d-i +
ext4 without journal) and is rather trivial to fix (reorder filesystem
feature checks).
The thing is that it's inconsistent to both say it's minor, and also
push for it to be fixed in trixie (where only fixes for >= important
bugs are allowed at this point in key packages). If you're asking me to
apply for a freeze exception from the release team, they're not likely
to be impressed by a minor bug.
If you're arguing that it meets the definition of important ("a bug
which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without
rendering it completely unusable to everyone"), that would be a
different matter. Is that the case? I might be willing to cherry-pick
the patch from upstream if the argument is that the bug should actually
have a higher severity.
(I'm not just being pedantic here - at the moment there's no point in me
spending time on things the release team is just going to reject.)
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Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
