severity #770265 critical And the reason why it should really really be fixed in Debian 9.4 is because it's a critical bug: anyone running into it will end up with a totally broken packaging system, that is one where no package can be added or removed.
1 critical makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break, [...] on systems where you install the package. -- Francois Gouget <fgou...@free.fr> http://fgouget.free.fr/ In theory, theory and practice are the same, but in practice they're different.