Re: Upcoming Debian Releases
Lars:
> Wouldn't it suffice to introduce a Severity field, which could
> be set to "critical" at once?
Yes, but be carefull: 'forwarded' and 'upload-pending' are no serverity
attributes. Those are state reports. They can eighter be appended to the
serverity flag "important forwrded" "unknown" "security-hole upload-pending"
or stored in an extra field. This cuts the list down to:
> feature-request request of feature or other enhancement,
> which don't affect the usability of the
> package; Debian maintainer of the package
> expects to be able to provide the feature
> herself, instead of forwarding it
>
> unknown default level for all new packages; no need
> be changed for most packages, especially if
> bug is closed quickly
>
> important bug makes package unusable, but doesn't affect
> important parts of the system (meaning that
> most people won't be affected); bug should be
> fixed if package is to be part of the next
> release
>
> critical bug makes important parts of the system not
> work correctly (most people will be affected),
> and must be fixed before the next release (and
> preferably today)
>
> security-hole bug compromises system security and must be
> fixed very quickly, preferably within hours
Greetings
Bernd
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