Control: severity -1 important

Hi Jeff,

thanks for the quick feedback!

Jeff Licquia wrote:
> On 03/31/2014 07:29 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > From my point of view it does not render the package generally
> > unusable, just for the case where the server is an significantly older
> > version.
> > 
> > Then again, the case with Jessie and Wheezy is likely no seldom one,
> > so I think if there's a chance to fix this issue, it should be fixed
> > before the freeze for Jessie.
> > 
> > I checked the upstream bug tracker and found only one entry similar to
> > this issue. Unfortunately it was tagged "invalid":
> > 
> > http://synergy-foss.org/spit/issues/details/3562/
> 
> My plan to "fix" this bug is to make a version of synergy 1.4 available
> in wheezy-backports.

Good idea!

> I suspect this will become a problem more and more with other distros as
> well; upstream considers 1.3 to be obsolete, and other distros are
> updating synergy as well.  So, I consider the existence of a backport
> for wheezy to be the best resolution we can hope for.

Yes, but it's definitely not release-critical if backwards
compatibility is a just not supported feature. (Lowering the severity
also prevents synergy to be (auto-)removed from testing which would
hinder uploading a backport, too.)

                Regards, Axel
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