"Thibaut" <mlotpot.news@free.fr> wrote:
Hi,I have noticed that one of my packages, yorick-ml4, is completely broken on amd64 and presumably all other 64-bit archs. Because the package is unusable on all amd64 machines (and more), I believe this is a release critical bug (which I know how to fix). However, when using reportbug, this bug does not seem to fit in any of the criteria for reporting a grave bug:You are reporting a grave bug; which of the following criteria does it meet?1 renders package unusable renders the package unusable, or mostly so, on all or nearly all possible systems on which it could be installed (i.e., not a hardware-specificbug); or renders package uninstallable or unremovable without special effort
A Bug that affects an entire architecure is grave under this category.A Bug that does not affect an *entire* archatecture, but does affect an overwelming majority of the machines of that architecure (such a a bug specific to CPU's of a manufacture that makes over 90% of that architecure's CPUs) would also be grave under this category.
A bug that affects only AMD i386 architecures would be a Serious bug, not a grave bug, as the package would still be usable for about half the machines. (Unless it has other reasons to be promoted to a higher severity)
A bug that affects only machines with an uncommon peice of hardware would be a normal bug, unless it had other reasons to be promoted to a higher serverity.
That is the spirit of the policy, even though reportbug's wording does not quite reflect it.