Re: Mass bug filing: dpkg-buildpackage -A

[Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>]

Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 06:14:43 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > If it's a “severe violation of Debian policy”, the bug is at least
> > “serious” severity.

This is one way that a bug can be determined “Severity: serious”, by
definition.

In other words: “severe violation of Debian policy” implies “bug is
Severity: serious”.

> The release team's RC policy decides which policy violations we
> consider "severe" in the sense of "gets a serious severity bug".

And this is another, by definition.

In other words: “release team determined the bug is RC” implies “bug is
Severity: serious”.

The reverse implication is not true: one cannot infer from “Severity:
serious” that the release team made that determination. The “Severity”
field doesn't *only* mean that, so it's not a valid inference.

By my reading of the “serious” severity definition, any of its “or”
clauses makes for sufficient justification to set “Severity: serious”
without considering the other clauses.

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