Bug#239956: debconf severity inflation

[Joe Drew <drew@debian.org>]

Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.8p1-2
Severity: important
Tags: sid

ssh interrupts installation with two uses two critical-level debconf
prompts; one is a warning, another a question.

These messages, dire in importance as they are, should be of low
priority. The warning (note) itself should be removed and placed in
NEWS.Debian; the question should be left in, but at a low or maybe
medium priority. This is because its defaults will suffice for nearly 
everybody. Even those upgrading via ssh will not be affected, as 
restarting ssh will not close open sessions (unless ssh is restarted 
in a stupid manner).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.51         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                     1.4.17       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.20      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam-modules              0.76-16      Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime              0.76-16      Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                    0.76-16      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libssl0.9.7                 0.9.7d-1     SSL shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                    7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
  ssh/insecure_rshd: 
  ssh/privsep_ask: true
* ssh/user_environment_tell: 
* ssh/forward_warning: 
  ssh/insecure_telnetd: 
  ssh/new_config: true
* ssh/use_old_init_script: true
* ssh/SUID_client: true
* ssh/privsep_tell: 
  ssh/ssh2_keys_merged: 
* ssh/protocol2_only: true
  ssh/encrypted_host_key_but_no_keygen: 
* ssh/run_sshd: true