José Luis González <jlgon...@ya.com> writes: > Package: general > Severity: important > > The Debian Policy Manual doesn't feature the Debian Bug Tracking > System. This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in > the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when > the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is > archived (please see bug #227941.) Since the problem is only specific > to that bug, it would suffice to raise severity of #227941 to serious. > The current description of severities contained in doc-base (in > bug-maint-info.txt) lists RC bugs as critical, grave and serious, but > nothing in the policy qualifies #227941 as serious (there's no > directive that makes it a policy violation) and the bug isn't grave or > critical according to that description. > > I am filing this bug so that this is resolved. According to the > description in that file (bug-maint-info.txt) this bug isn't RC as well > despite it permits RC bugs to remain in Debian as explained above. A > solution would be to include a directive in the Debian Policy that > requires any RC problem be marked as serious.
I'm a little confused by this bug report, but as near as I can tell, your concern is that you don't think you can re-open RC bugs that were mistakenly closed long enough that they've been archived. As already explained, this is indeed possible; you just have to unarchive them first. Bug #227941 is a request for a wontfix status in the BTS and as near as I can tell is entirely unrelated to your concern. It seems like your remaining issue is that the unarchive command is not documented in bug-maint-info.txt, which is part of the doc-debian package. This command is now documented, not in bug-maint-info.txt, but in bug-maint-mailcontrol.txt, to which the other document refers. Accordingly, I think this bug has already been addressed and should be closed. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
