Bug#550103: Bug#550166: reportbug: grave severity description should be 'non-serious data loss'
Hello Green (is this your real name? it's nice to know who you're talking to), On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 06:20, green greenfreedo...@gmail.com wrote: Package: reportbug Version: 3.48 Severity: normal The description for the 'grave' severity in reportbug should indicate that it is _not_ for _serious_ data loss, like: causes non-serious data loss. The severities in reportbug are the ones defined[1] by the BTS, so I'm not going to branch from their description. If you want them to be changed, your should talk to BTS maintainers first, then downstream to us. Closing this bug report now. [1] http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities I was reporting a bug (550103) for a program that did cause data loss by not writing user inputted data to the filesystem. That data therefore becomes unrecoverable--that is 'serious data loss'. When reporting the bug, I chose 'grave' because it mentioned 'data loss' and I did not feel that 'critical' severity was correct because the data loss was not catastrophic. When reportbug asked for justification, the only data loss option is 'non-serious', so I was forced to use 'unknown' which lowered the severity to 'normal'. I should have used 'critical' and 'causes serious data loss', hence the suggested description change. No, the correct severity is 'grave': 'critical' is far too higher for a program not saving its own files. Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550168: libopal3.6.6-dbg and libopal3.6.4-dbg: error when trying to install together
Package: libopal3.6.4-dbg,libopal3.6.6-dbg Version: libopal3.6.4-dbg/3.6.4~dfsg-1 Version: libopal3.6.6-dbg/3.6.6~dfsg-1 Severity: serious User: trei...@debian.org Usertags: edos-file-overwrite Date: 2009-10-08 Architecture: amd64 Distribution: sid Hi, automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has detected the following problem: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! libasound2 libcelt0 libsysfs2 tsconf libts-0.0-0 libdirectfb-1.2-0 libexpat1 libgsm1 libltdl7 libogg0 libx86-1 libsvga1 libsdl1.2debian-alsa libsdl1.2debian odbcinst odbcinst1debian1 unixodbc libpt2.6.4 libspeex1 libspeexdsp1 libtheora0 libopal3.6.4 libpt2.6.5 libopal3.6.6 libopal3.6.4-dbg libopal3.6.6-dbg Authentication warning overridden. Can not write log, openpty() failed (/dev/pts not mounted?) Selecting previously deselected package libasound2. (Reading database ... 10256 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libasound2 (from .../libasound2_1.0.21a-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libcelt0. Unpacking libcelt0 (from .../libcelt0_0.6.1-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libsysfs2. Unpacking libsysfs2 (from .../libsysfs2_2.1.0-6_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package tsconf. Unpacking tsconf (from .../archives/tsconf_1.0-7_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libts-0.0-0. Unpacking libts-0.0-0 (from .../libts-0.0-0_1.0-7_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libdirectfb-1.2-0. Unpacking libdirectfb-1.2-0 (from .../libdirectfb-1.2-0_1.2.8-4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libexpat1. Unpacking libexpat1 (from .../libexpat1_2.0.1-4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libgsm1. Unpacking libgsm1 (from .../libgsm1_1.0.13-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libltdl7. Unpacking libltdl7 (from .../libltdl7_2.2.6a-4_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libogg0. Unpacking libogg0 (from .../libogg0_1.1.4~dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libx86-1. Unpacking libx86-1 (from .../libx86-1_1.1+ds1-6_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libsvga1. Unpacking libsvga1 (from .../libsvga1_1%3a1.4.3-27_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libsdl1.2debian-alsa. Unpacking libsdl1.2debian-alsa (from .../libsdl1.2debian-alsa_1.2.13-5_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libsdl1.2debian. Unpacking libsdl1.2debian (from .../libsdl1.2debian_1.2.13-5_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package odbcinst. Unpacking odbcinst (from .../odbcinst_2.2.11-20_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package odbcinst1debian1. Unpacking odbcinst1debian1 (from .../odbcinst1debian1_2.2.11-20_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package unixodbc. Unpacking unixodbc (from .../unixodbc_2.2.11-20_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libpt2.6.4. Unpacking libpt2.6.4 (from .../libpt2.6.4_2.6.4-1+b1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libspeex1. Unpacking libspeex1 (from .../libspeex1_1.2~rc1-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libspeexdsp1. Unpacking libspeexdsp1 (from .../libspeexdsp1_1.2~rc1-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libtheora0. Unpacking libtheora0 (from .../libtheora0_1.1.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libopal3.6.4. Unpacking libopal3.6.4 (from .../libopal3.6.4_3.6.4~dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libpt2.6.5. Unpacking libpt2.6.5 (from .../libpt2.6.5_2.6.5-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libopal3.6.6. Unpacking libopal3.6.6 (from .../libopal3.6.6_3.6.6~dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libopal3.6.4-dbg. Unpacking libopal3.6.4-dbg (from .../libopal3.6.4-dbg_3.6.4~dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libopal3.6.6-dbg. Unpacking libopal3.6.6-dbg (from .../libopal3.6.6-dbg_3.6.6~dfsg-1_amd64.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libopal3.6.6-dbg_3.6.6~dfsg-1_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/simpleopal', which is also in package libopal3.6.4-dbg 0:3.6.4~dfsg-1 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Processing triggers for man-db ... Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libopal3.6.6-dbg_3.6.6~dfsg-1_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail. Possible solutions are to have the two packages conflict, to rename the common file in one of the two packages, or to remove the file from one package and have this package depend on the other package. File diversions or a Replace relation are another possibility. Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both
