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Bug#755800: Acknowledgement (bogus urgency field from security-tracker)



On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 15:51:35 +0200 Holger Levsen wrote:

[...]
> Hi,

Hi Holger!

> 
> looking at
> https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/oldstable
> (unstable too) it seems to 
> me the urgency field is rather unused, for oldstable all entries are either 
> low or "not yet assigned" (unstable has one high urgency entry, while way more 
> in reality), so I'd like to propose to remove this field completly as it's 
> confusing and irrelevant.

Well, I don't know whether it is indeed unused.

To be honest, I was hoping it was used and filled with relevant values
whenever possible!
If this is not the case, I would encourage the security tracker users to
set this field with significant values, so that readers may get an
approximate idea about the gravity of the various vulnerabilities...


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