On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:11:35PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> The decision of whether a bug is release-critical or not is for the
> release managers to make, using the various properties of the bug
> (including but *not* limited to its severity) as input to that
> decision. They can, in fact, make
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Ben Finney wrote:
> So, it's not correct for anyone but a release manager to decide
> “this bug is/is not release-critical, so I'll change the severity”;
> that is a perversion of the meaning of the severity field.
That's not quite true. See below.
> You can argue about wheth
Don Armstrong writes:
> On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, José Luis González wrote:
> > If a problem is RC, it should be marked as RC. If the BTS manages
> > pseudopackages, a bug in a pseudopackage that is RC should be
> > marked as RC in the BTS.
>
> The BTS has nothing to do with deciding whether particul
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008, José Luis González wrote:
> If a problem is RC, it should be marked as RC. If the BTS manages
> pseudopackages, a bug in a pseudopackage that is RC should be marked
> as RC in the BTS.
The BTS has nothing to do with deciding whether particular bugs are
release critical or not.
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:13:54 +0200
Kalle Kivimaa wrote:
> José Luis González writes:
> Why on earth would #227941 be anything but a wishlist? It is very easy
> to reopen an archived bug, all you need to do is unarchive it first.
It is indeed a wishlist. Please, see my message afterwards.
> For
José Luis González writes:
> System. This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in
> the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when
> the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is
> archived (please see bug #227941.) Since the problem is onl
package general
reassign 509732 doc-debian
thanks
José Luis González wrote:
>> This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in
>> the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when
>> the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is
>> archived (plea
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org:
> package general
Ignoring bugs not assigned to: general
> reassign 509732 doc-debian
Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `doc-debian'.
> thanks
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> This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in
> the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when
> the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is
> archived (please see bug #227941.) Since the problem is only specific
> to that bug, it would s
Package: general
Severity: important
The Debian Policy Manual doesn't feature the Debian Bug Tracking
System. This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in
the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when
the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices befor
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