Package: reportbug Version: 3.48 Severity: normal The description for the 'grave' severity in reportbug should indicate that it is _not_ for _serious_ data loss, like: "causes non-serious data loss".
I was reporting a bug (550103) for a program that did cause data loss by not writing user inputted data to the filesystem. That data therefore becomes unrecoverable--that is 'serious data loss'. When reporting the bug, I chose 'grave' because it mentioned 'data loss' and I did not feel that 'critical' severity was correct because the data loss was not catastrophic. When reportbug asked for justification, the only data loss option is 'non-serious', so I was forced to use 'unknown' which lowered the severity to 'normal'. I should have used 'critical' and 'causes serious data loss', hence the suggested description change. Thanks. -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: INTERFACE="text" ** /home/user/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "3.39" mode standard ui text realname "green" email "greenfreedo...@gmail.com" no-cc mutt -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (730, 'stable'), (720, 'testing'), (710, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30+67 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.7.20.2+lenny1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii python 2.5.2-3 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-central 0.6.11 register and build utility for Pyt reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn debconf-utils <none> (no description available) ii debsums 2.0.36 verification of installed package pn dlocate <none> (no description available) ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gnupg 1.4.9-3+lenny1 GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep ii postfix [mail-transport-a 2.5.5-1.1 High-performance mail transport ag ii python-urwid 0.9.8.3-1 curses-based UI/widget library for -- no debconf information
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