On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 06:41:11PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Moritz Muehlenhoff:
>
> > - Severity ratings have been repeatedly picked up by news sites
> > taking it as an official position of the Debian project and
> > indirectly the Security Team. This means that severity ratings
> > should only be added with great care. Not every issue needs
> > a severity rating, if in doubt leave out or mark it unknown.
>
> I doubt the severity ratings in the tracker are used by news
> organisations (perhaps with the exception of LWN), given that it's
> virtually unknown.
I've seen this at Heise (most important German language IT news site)
when reporting about security issues ("This issue has been classified
as "high" by Debian")
Cheers,
Moritz
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