Re: Bug severity question
On Mon, 01 Apr 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> On 01-Apr-2002 Will Newton wrote:
> > Is it acceptable to downgrade a serious bug to important if it is a build
> > error on an arch that has never built correctly in the past?
> >
> > The problem is being worked on, it's just taking a little time, and I see no
> > reason to make users of another architecture suffer because of this.
>
> sounds reasonable.
Not only reasonable. It is correct. Build failures in an arch that never got
it right are not serious bugs, just important/normal ones. Now, if it used
to work and it is now broken, THEN it is serious.
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Henrique Holschuh
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