Re: Bug system severities
jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl writes:
> - "out of date": there is a newer upstream version available.
> This is orthogonal to the currently proposed values.
No, the severity field should describe the severity, not the type of
bug. An out of date bug is just a normal bug. Otherwise we would add
severities dependency-error, packaging-error, out-of-date-standards,
etc.
> - "fyi": information for the maintainer (or future maintainer in the case of
> orphaned packages) for which regular email isn't appropriate (e.g.
> maintainer is busy or wants to use the bugtracking system as a reminder).
The information is probably relating to some bug - so it can just be
sent to that bug's address.
Guy
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