Re: a question about BTS severities
Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> wrote:
>
> Similarly, I don't think a bug is grave if it makes a package unusable by
> just one person in an odd sitution. On the other hand, I think all security
> and data loss bugs are grave, even if only a few people can trigger them.
I disagree. If a package causes a remote root exploit to be available, even
if it's only in a very specific configuration, I would say that it is critical.
Now how this applies to the other two grades, IMHO should be decided on a
case by case basis.
> What do other think, and have you seen seeing the same runaway bug severity
> inflation I have?
I've certainly seen an increase of release critical bugs recently. And I
agree that sometimes they are rather overrated, but I don't think we should
make any decisions that we might come to regret later just because of it.
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