A "grave" bug is one serious enough to prevent the release of the package. The description of this priority (in bug-maint-info.txt) does mention "data loss" as a possible justification for marking a bug as grave, but the data loss described in this bug report (qualified as "minor" in the submitter's justification tag) is not of sufficient seriousness that users would prefer not to have the package at all compared to having the package with this bug.
(Indeed, I'd question whether it even merits "important" severity, i.e. I don't think the bug "has a major effect on the usability of [the] package": (i) I haven't managed to reproduce this bug in 0.42.2-1, and previous comments here mention difficulty in reproducing. (ii) At least two work-arounds exist, namely to edit the text in-line (if I've correctly understood from the original bug report) or to use the XML editor. (iii) I'm not sure I've seen this bug reported before in the bug tracker or on #inkscape, so I suppose it's not a major problem for most people. Indeed, I'd say most SVG files don't even contain text; text editing is not a major part of inkscape use, which suggests that most text-editing bugs don't have "a major effect on [usability]".) So first of all, please reduce the severity (I'd suggest "normal"), which will allow inkscape 0.43 to enter testing, which in turn might make it easier for some people to confirm whether the bug is still in 0.43-1 or not. (At least one bug related to line-spacing has been fixed upstream between 0.42 and 0.43.) Can someone report on their experiences reproduce this on 0.43-1 ? (I haven't managed to reproduce the bug even in the version where this bug was originally reported (0.42.2-1).) If you can reproduce it, then please attach an example file and steps of how to reproduce the bug, to assist in fixing the bug. I believe Debian's 0.43-1 isn't very heavily patched relative to upstream, so I'd guess that the bug isn't Debian-specific; so you might consider reporting the bug upstream: see the "Bug reports" link on the left of http://inkscape.org/. pjrm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
