On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:34:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.2.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
> According to bugs.debian.org:
>
> ] serious
> ] is a severe violation of Debian policy (that is, it violates a
> ] "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package
> ] maintainer's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.
> -- http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer
>
> According to policy:
>
> ] These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug severities
> ] _important_ (for _must_ or _required_ directive violations), _normal_
> ] (for _should_ or _recommended_ directive violations) and _wishlist_
> ] (for _optional_ items). [2]
>
> Policy evidently never got updated to reflect the new "serious" severity.
> Straightforward patch follows:
>
> --- policy.sgml.old Sun Mar 25 22:33:31 2001
> +++ policy.sgml Sun Mar 25 22:33:52 2001
> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
> </p>
> <p>
> These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug
> - severities <em>important</em> (for <em>must</em> or
> + severities <em>serious</em> (for <em>must</em> or
> <em>required</em> directive violations), <em>normal</em>
> (for <em>should</em> or <em>recommended</em> directive
> violations) and <em>wishlist</em> (for <em>optional</em>
What about important severity? I would suggest the following:
These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug
- severities <em>important</em> (for <em>must</em> or
+ severities <em>serious</em> (for <em>must</em> or
<em>required</em> directive violations), <em>normal</em>
- (for <em>should</em> or <em>recommended</em> directive
+ or <em>important</em>
+ (for <em>should</em> or <em>recommended</em> directive
violations) and <em>wishlist</em> (for <em>optional</em>
For with the insistance that "must" = RC bug, there may be some
"should" recommendations which are really important to implement, but
which are not considered quite RC.
Julian
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