Re: On Bugs

[Joey Hess <joey@valinux.com>]

I have no idea where you found your attirbutions. FWIW, this is my first
post in this thread and I wrote nothing below this line.

John Goerzen wrote:
> Well, no.  If gedit has a grave bug, if it's not important, just don't
> release it.  We shouldn't be releasing things that are going to
> segfault immediately on start, pose a large security risk, or
> whatnot.  
> 
> Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > How about a different slant?
> > 
> > Why should a grave bug on gedit hold up a release?  With the number of packages
> > we have, ensuring that the tiny "My first program" pieces of software are bug
> > free is nearly impossible.  perhaps we should limit the scope of release
> > critical bugs to packages with priority standard or lower?
> > 
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