Re: Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-12 Thread Jamin W . Collins
On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 08:37:23 +0100 "Colin Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Submitting bugs with a specific severity is normal practice. I > understood we were talking about altering the severity after it was > submitted. Correct. I found what I believed to be a bug with a package's configura

Re: Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-12 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 09:01:33PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:34:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > | Usually it's better to give your opinion and leave the severity to > | the maintainer. > > If the bug is a wishlist or is obviously low priority then it is > (

Re: Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-11 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:34:22PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: | On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:09:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: | > Is there a "preferred" way for an end-user to increase/decrease the | > severity of a particular bug? Or are these at discretion of the package | > maintainer? | U

Re: Changing the Severity of a Bug

2002-06-11 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 04:09:37PM -0500, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Is there a "preferred" way for an end-user to increase/decrease the > severity of a particular bug? Or are these at discretion of the package > maintainer? It is technically possible for anyone to change a bug's severity as docum