Re: First draft of review of policy must usage
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:04:51AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> > "Unusable or mostly so" does not mean "unusable in select, minority
> > configurations explicitly enabled by the user." dash as /bin/sh is a corner
> > case, not the common case; which means such bugs do not in fact meet the
> > definition of "grave".
>
> Well... I didn't know that sererity of bugs depend of how many users
> can be affected. Using thise criterea you might them reduce the
> severity of GRUB and Parted RC bugs since them won't affect too much users.
That's crap, and you know it.
First, having dash as /bin/sh is not so much of a problem as you seem to
imply -- I've been running my system that way for ages, and can only
remember two cases in which it caused any problems.
Second, "unusable or mostly so" should be read as "almost all users who
install this package will encounter the bug". If you configure your
system to do something valid which triggers the bug (but that
configuration is not very common), then almost all users who install the
package will *not* encounter the bug, so it's not grave (but still
important).
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