Re: On Bugs
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 07:51:19AM +0100, John Lines wrote:
>
> > > I think the cause of such inflated severities (and occassionally
> > > deflated severities: a number of important bugs actually should
> > > be grave or critical, or at least that was the case during the freeze)
> > > is the extremely poor definition of important, namely:
> > >
> > > important any other bug which makes the package unsuitable for release.
> > >
> > > (from reportbug)
>
> Perhaps reportbug should do ask - 'Shall I remove this package from your
> system'
> when a user files a bug of important or higher. If they say no, then downgrade
> to
> normal.
That's fine unless the bug is a packaging bug, because if the new package
fails in preinst/postinst/etc, the user will definitely not want the old
(working) version of the package removed.
--Adam
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