On 7 Jun 2006, Thomas Bushnell verbalised:
>
> I have always thought that when bug X is blocking bug Y, the
> severity of bug X should be at least as big as the severity of bug
> Y.
I don't think so.
> I have recently been told by a maintainer that my logic in this
> regard is faulty. Is it?
Well, consider this. If there is a feature someone wants from
a package, say kernel-pack^H^H^H^Hfoo. Now, foo never had this
behaviour, and changing the behaviour of foo to actually have this
feature is not yet decided upon by upstream. Asking for the feature
is wishlist.
Now, if someone supposes foo should behave this new way, and
codes a package bar that uses foo expecting the new behaviour, and
bar now FTBS, bar has a grave bug that is blocked by foo changing
behaviour.
Can one now change the wishlist bug to grave as well? I think
not, since the feature request for foo remains a feature request.
manoj
this is not entirely a hypothetical situation
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