Re: On Bugs

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:37:10AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Errr. A grave bug could be due to, say, a /tmp race that lets any random
> user on a student.cs.some-u.edu randomly trash any other student's thesis
> work. Or it could randomly trash your entire home directory when run
> with --help as its only argument. Leave it in unstable, maybe, but not
> in stable.
> 
> (We've switched from "It doesn't work for me, therefore no one must
> have it" to "It might work for someone, therefore everyone must have
> it", hmmm...)

OK, well perhaps there's no hard and fast rule. Or perhaps a 'grave'
bug on an 'extra' package is release critical, but an
'important' bug on an 'extra' package is not.


Hamish
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