Bug#848859: Lowering the bug`s severity

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 10:11:56AM +0100, Anton Gladky wrote:
> 2016-12-27 9:50 GMT+01:00 Santiago Vila <sanvila at unex.es>:
> > This means, if you are bad at math, that the error will happen once
> > every 20 tries. If you only built it 5 times, you did not really tried
> > to reproduce it.
> 
> I'm not going to build every package 20 times to catch a "possible" bug,

The build logs I sent prove that there is bug, so it's not a "possible" bug.

> The main source of information for this type of bugs is the
> buildds [1] for me. They are happy at the moment.

The main, maybe, but it should not be the only one.

In particular, if something happens 1 every 20 times on average, the
fact that it did not happen when you try 10 times does not mean in any
way that it may not happen.

This is basic math, and everybody here (debian-science) should be aware of that.

Sorry if you don't like my communication style. Please try not to
dismiss completely the build logs I sent and maybe you will see how my
communication style improves greatly.

Thanks.