Re: On Bugs

["Sean 'Shaleh' Perry" <shaleh@valinux.com>]

On 02-Oct-2000 Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 10:32:05AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> How about a different slant?
>> Why should a grave bug on gedit hold up a release?  
> 
> It won't: it'll get gedit removed. That's not the question, the question
> is whether a bug is severe enough to mean *no one* should use it. Just
> because it's no good for colour blind users (eg) doesn't mean we shouldn't
> make it available for normally sighted people.
> 

my point is, I am not against console-apt being released in Debian.  However I
want a bug severity high enough that the maintainer takes the bug seriously.  A
package with priority extra or optional should not be able to affect a release,
grave bug or not.