Package: reportbug Version: 3.2 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software
The reportbug package asks users to pick from a list of severities by name, giving lengthy text explanations of the severities. Experience shows that novice users tend to overestimate the severity of their bugs, apparently often without reading the descriptions at all; and once they've selected a severity, the "justification" is just another hoop to jump through that's satisfiable by picking something at random as in this bug report here. I think it would be better to either not offer users the choice of RC severities in novice mode, or to only allow users to choose bug severities by *description* rather than by name. Please downgrade this bug, I just couldn't resist the temptation. ;) -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: DEBEMAIL="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ** /home/vorlon/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "3.2" mode novice ui text realname "Steve Langasek" email "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii python2.3 2.3.4-19 An interactive high-level object-o -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
