On Thu 05 Sep 2024 at 02:23pm +02, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi David, > > On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 08:57:02AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: >> Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> writes: >> >> > Source: cycle-quotes >> > Severity: serious >> > Justification: grab attention of maintainer >> >> For the record, this "justification" is pretty infuriating, no matter >> how well thought the rest of the message (which I am now not going to >> read) might be. > > I note that you are the first one giving this feedback. The context here > is that a package receiving such a report looks neglected and the bug > report actually threatens to remove the package from unstable. The > intention of using serious here is making sure that this pre-removal > notification is not being missed and as a result we remove a package > that should be kept. Do you think that severity serious is the wrong > tool for this job? If not, can you suggest a better way of justifying > it?
That's simply not what the serious notification means. Also, this package has no maintainer: # -- Sean Whitton
