Bug#128745: Downgrading severity

[Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>]

Control: severity -1 critical

On 2016-06-26 10:51:12 +0900, Sean Whitton wrote:
> The description for the 'serious' severity is
> 
>     is a severe violation of Debian policy (that is, the problem is a
>     violation of a 'must' or 'required' directive); may or may not
>     affect the usability of the package. Note that non-severe policy
>     violations may be 'normal,' 'minor,' or 'wishlist' bugs. (Package
>     maintainers may also designate other bugs as 'serious' and thus
>     release-critical; however, end users should not do so.). For the
>     canonical list of issues worthing a serious severity you can refer
>     to this webpage: http://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt .

OK, so, if one follows

  http://release.debian.org/testing/rc_policy.txt

that's "critical":

  makes unrelated software on the system (or the whole system) break

because it breaks the build of MPFR from the svn trunk, while MPFR
and its build tools are not related to libstroke at all.

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