On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 08:48 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:14:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > > > > If it's a “severe violation of Debian policy”, the bug is at least > > > “serious” severity. > > This is one way that a bug can be determined “Severity: serious”, by > definition. > > In other words: “severe violation of Debian policy” implies “bug is > Severity: serious”. > > > The release team's RC policy decides which policy violations we > > consider "severe" in the sense of "gets a serious severity bug". > > And this is another, by definition.
I think you may have missed Julien's point - there is no specific definition of "severe violation of Debian policy" that is distinct from "is listed in the Release Team's RC policy". Neither policy nor the BTS defines exactly what is meant by "severe violation". Policy indicates that violations are "roughly equivalent" to particular bug severities and https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer.html similarly uses "roughly". The BTS used to have a more precise definition, most recently by explicitly referring to the separate RC policy - see http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/Bugs/Developer.wml?r1=1.46&r2=1.47 and #695531. (Whether there should be such a distinction is something on which there are differing opinions; that's also subtly different from whether there is one.) Regards, Adam
