I've been saying the same thing now for a while... I get peeved at some of the > normal bugs I've seen reported..
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 09:33:39AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities talks about bug severities: > > critical > makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, or > causes serious data loss, or introduces a security hole on systems where > you install the package. > grave > makes the package in question unuseable or mostly so, or causes data > loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of > users who use the package. > important > any other bug which makes the package unsuitable for release. > > I'm seeing a lot of "grave" and "important" bugs lately. (I've closed 17 > > normal importance bugs in my packages in the past 28 days, and just 23 > normal bugs. ). > > I've noticed that in many of the cases where I think the bug has too high > severity, the bug doesn't affect all users of the package. A specific > example: I've a rvplayer bug saying that it segfaults, marked important. But > since people have been using that binary for about 9 months, with general > success (and since the package in question is only in stable, and has not > changed in any way in that time period), the bug is clearly not affecting > everyone, or even many people. > > I think we should clarify the description of important to note that the bug > has to affect a large group of people to be important severity. > > Similarly, I don't think a bug is grave if it makes a package unusable by > just one person in an odd sitution. On the other hand, I think all security > and data loss bugs are grave, even if only a few people can trigger them. > > What do other think, and have you seen seeing the same runaway bug severity > inflation I have? > > -- > see shy jo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * =========================================================================
