Bug#91276: PROPOSED 2001/03/25] update policy to match new serious severity

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 10:34:31PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.2.0
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> According to bugs.debian.org:
> 
> ]    serious
> ]           is a severe violation of Debian policy (that is, it violates a
> ]           "must" or "required" directive), or, in the package
> ]           maintainer's opinion, makes the package unsuitable for release.
>         -- http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer
> 
> According to policy:
> 
> ]      These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug severities
> ]      _important_ (for _must_ or _required_ directive violations), _normal_
> ]      (for _should_ or _recommended_ directive violations) and _wishlist_
> ]      (for _optional_ items).  [2]
> 
> Policy evidently never got updated to reflect the new "serious" severity.
> Straightforward patch follows:
> 
> --- policy.sgml.old     Sun Mar 25 22:33:31 2001
> +++ policy.sgml Sun Mar 25 22:33:52 2001
> @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@
>         </p>
>         <p>
>           These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug
> -         severities <em>important</em> (for <em>must</em> or
> +         severities <em>serious</em> (for <em>must</em> or
>           <em>required</em> directive violations), <em>normal</em>
>           (for <em>should</em> or <em>recommended</em> directive
>           violations) and <em>wishlist</em> (for <em>optional</em>

What about important severity?  I would suggest the following:

          These classifications are roughly equivalent to the bug
-         severities <em>important</em> (for <em>must</em> or
+         severities <em>serious</em> (for <em>must</em> or
          <em>required</em> directive violations), <em>normal</em>
-         (for <em>should</em> or <em>recommended</em> directive
+         or <em>important</em>
+         (for <em>should</em> or <em>recommended</em> directive
          violations) and <em>wishlist</em> (for <em>optional</em>

For with the insistance that "must" = RC bug, there may be some
"should" recommendations which are really important to implement, but
which are not considered quite RC.

   Julian

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