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Re: Is a bug "grave" if the package is unusable for at least two architectures (Was: Bug#154829: Aido problems on 64 bit architectures)



On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 09:59:07PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Mike Markley wrote:
> 
> > severity 154829 important
> > thanks
> >
> > ...
> > Also, this bug does NOT render the package unusable to everyone.
> > I'm downgrading it to important. It's still on the radar, I just don't
> > know where to go from here and upstream's been pretty inactive as of
> > late.
> If Debian releases for 11 architectures the package has to work on *all*
> these architectures.  I regard it as grave bug if it is definitley unusable
> on two architectures.  I do not want to start a severity ping-pong und thus
> I would like to discuss this topic on devel.

I agree with Andreas here. I feel that 'major impact, does not render
unusable to everyone' should be interpreted as 'the bug makes things go
all whacky, making it hard to do useful stuff with the program, although
it's probably still useful to some users in its current state, with the
bug'. Not something such as "if there's any user on this planet who can
still use the program, it's not a grave bug", since in that case, grave
bugs would be reserved for packages that segfault at startup on *all*
architectures...

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