Re: Severity of "should this package be orphaned/removed" bugs

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 27/03/08 at 10:12 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > Processing commands for control@bugs.debian.org:
> > 
> > > severity 453487 serious
> > Bug#453487: Should this package be orphaned?
> > Severity set to `serious' from `important'
> 
> Hi,
> 
> We really need to clarify the severities for the "Should this
> package be orphaned/removed" bugs.

I have no special opinion about the general case, but in this
specific case we have a high-profile app with regular security
issues, which will soon no longer be supported upstream, while
we will need to support it until 2011.

Cheers,
        Moritz