Can reports of serious policy violations be downgraded to important?

[Philippe Cloutier <philippe.cloutier.2@ulaval.ca>]

Romain Beauxis a écrit :

> Le dimanche 4 février 2007 13:35, vous avez écrit :
>  
>
> > Anyway, one of the bugs is serious. If you keep the bugs merged, the merged
> > reports should have the maximum severity, i.e. serious rather than
> > important. So please upgrade.
> >    
>
> It is serious regarding the policy violation.
> However, I do not want to set it to serious as for now because of what Steve 
> said.
>  
What Steve said is for #393962 but not #388616.

> If you wish to add a RC bug more to debian, please ask to the release managers 
> if they feel that this should be solved for debian etch.
Release team: I believe that #388616 should be upgraded back to serious. 
Please state that you agree with Romain if the report shouldn't be 
upgraded back to serious.