Bug#735261: mutiple upstream bugs

[Shai Berger <shai@platonix.com>]

On Monday 19 January 2015 00:54:41 Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 5:44 PM, Shai Berger wrote:
> > I am asking about "serious" vs. "non-serious" because those are the terms
> > used by reportbug ("non-serious data loss" is a reason to mark a bug
> > "grave").
> 
> Both grave and critical refer to actual data loss.  Using the term
> serious isn't particularly useful since that falls outside those two
> categories anyway.
> 

Again, you're being tautological, repeating your terms rather than defining 
them.

> 
> The description of the "important" may help correct the ongoing
> misperception: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities
> 

In my book, "a major effect on the usability of a package" means I can't do 
what I want (easily enough). The case here -- "I told the program something 
and it forgot it" -- is data loss.

Your answers above indicate that "easy recreatability" does not make something 
"not data loss"; and yet this case is not data loss because it is just "easily 
recreatable bits". The only interpretation I find consistent with that is 
"single bits are not data" -- which makes no sense to me.

Thanks for your patience,
	Shai.