On 27/03/08 at 10:12 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > severity 453487 serious > Bug#453487: Should this package be orphaned? > Severity set to `serious' from `important'
Hi, We really need to clarify the severities for the "Should this package be orphaned/removed" bugs. In my initial proposal[1], I proposed to use severity:serious for both prop-orphaned and prop-removed bugs (and nobody objected to that back then). The rationale for the release-criticality of those bugs is that we really want to clarify that situation (and have a maintainer for that package) before we release. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2007/10/msg00406.html However, since then, Luk Claes downgraded the severity of some of those bugs to important, and some other people filed bugs as severity:important. I don't have a strong opinion about that, but we really should clarify the situation, so all the bugs of the same class have the same severity, and we can stop the stupid & frustrating BTS ping-pong. I would agree to go with: - serious for "proposed removal" bugs - important for "proposed orphan" bugs. After all, we release with a lot of orphaned packages, and unmaintained packages aren't really different. However, I fear that, since the "proposed orphan" bugs won't be RC, some maintainers might ignore them more easily. Also, it prevents them from being listed in ddpo-by-mail, for example. Luk, what are the reasons why you think that severity: important is more suitable than severity: serious? If it's only because it blocks testing transitions, we could mark the bugs as found in the testing version where needed, so testing transitions can still happen. If that's because it "artificially" makes the RC bug count higher, we could tag the bugs lenny-ignore where applicable (that is, where the security team doesn't think that it's a too big problem to release that package without maintainer). What do you think? Thank you, -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
