Bug#1010415: www.debian.org: please slightly clarify description of 'grave' bug severity
Package: www.debian.org
Severity: wishlist
On https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer, the description for the
severity level of grave reads, "makes the package in question unusable
or mostly so, or causes data loss, or introduces a security hole
allowing access to the accounts of users who use the package."
I believe that this confuses our users (and sometimes developers), who
read that and think to themselves, "well this makes the package unusable
FOR ME, therefore the severity must be grave." It's clear from the
description of 'important' ("a bug which has a major effect on the
usability of a package, without rendering it completely unusable to
everyone") that the intention is for grave to apply to issues that make
the package unusable FOR MOST USERS. I'm filing this bug because I keep
seeing bugs filed as grave that make this mistake.
Therefore, I suggest modifying the language of the grave severity level
description to read (with the new text between asterisks), "makes the
package in question unusable *by most users*, or causes data loss, or
introduces a security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who
use the package.", with "or mostly so" being removed.
Reportbug's description for grave is "makes the package in question
unusable by most or all users, or causes data loss, or introduces a
security hole allowing access to the accounts of users who use the
package." Modifying the website language as I suggested would make it
closer match the reportbug language.
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