On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 03:18:54PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> > Your rationale for downgrading the severity of an issue like this is that it
> > doesn't bother you personally?
>
> My rationale, if you must know, is that if this is an important issue,
> then the people who consider it an important issue will ofcourse work on
> getting it fixed.
I'm curious -- what exactly do you have in mind? How should the users
bothered by this bug "work on it"? What would you consider a reasonable,
acceptable level of effort?
> There's nothing in debian policy (the document who defines the severity
> levels for the bug tracking system) that says 'If you raise the severity
> of a bug report then "someone else"<tm> has to do the work for you'.
Nobody "has" to "do the work". It's just that if the work is not done, the
issue stays open. If it meets the definition of a "grave" bug, then it stays
grave. You're right in that if it's important enough for *the right people*,
then it'll get fixed eventually. It's entirely possible that the the users
affected by a bug are not the right ones to effect a fix.
You can argue with the severity, but I don't think you should downgrade it
for frivolous reasons like "I'm not interested in fixing it", or "I don't
like the attitude of a commenter; I think they're being lazy."
> Scratch your own itch.
Sorry, no, that's not how this works. I'll scratch my own itch if/when I
can, and also the itches of others if/when I can. This is not a bug I can
realistically fix, but that doesn't affect either its severity or its
existence.
You don't get to downgrade a bug that meets the criteria for being "grave"
just because you aren't personally affected by it, or because the user who
reported it (or someone who commented on it) is unable or unwilling to fix
it himself/herself. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that.
> The previously provided suggestion that this might lead to data loss is
> a bit far fetched if you ask me.
That's a valid argument. FWIW, I have no opinion. I filed the bug with a
normal priority and won't insist on it being grave. If you think you can
downgrade it for the right reasons, go ahead (as far as I'm concerned).
Best regards,
András
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