On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 20:49:50 +0200, Niko Tyni wrote:

> While I'm not going to start a severity war (and agree that the package
> should be fixed), this is not the traditional interpretation. FTBFS bugs
> have been routinely downgraded to 'important' in the past when the build
> failures were nondeterministic and the build succeeded part of the time.

That's my understanding as well.
Just yesterday I downgraded a bug of this type to important after
consulting with a member of the release team.
 
Cheers,
gregor

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