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Bug#509732: Debian policy doesn't feature RC bugs



package general
reassign 509732 doc-debian
thanks

José Luis González wrote:
>> This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in
>> the Bug Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in Debian when
>> the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before it is
>> archived (please see bug #227941.) Since the problem is only specific
>> to that bug, it would suffice to raise severity of #227941 to serious.
>> The current description of severities contained in doc-base (in
>> bug-maint-info.txt) lists RC bugs as critical, grave and serious, but
>> nothing in the policy qualifies #227941 as serious (there's no
>> directive that makes it a policy violation) and the bug isn't grave or
>> critical according to that description.
> 
> I wrote the text above before reading Sven's message. The text of
> bug-maint-info.txt in stable (etch) does not feature the unarchive
> command yet since it was added after the doc-base package was frozen or
> nobody cared to update it before. Please, let it be:
> 
> This makes it impossible to report a bug with RC severity in the Bug
> Tracking System that permits RC bugs to remain in the next releases of
> Debian when the report is closed incorrectly and nobody notices before
> they are out.
bug-maint-info.txt file is in package 'doc-debian', reassigned

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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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