[Parted-maintainers] Bug#1103454: libparted detects ext4 without journal as ext2

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, May 31, 2025 at 09:53:13AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>On 30/05/2025 at 13:01, Colin Watson wrote:
>>If it's a non-trivial bug, why did you file it as Severity: minor? 
>>https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities - "a problem which 
>>doesn't affect the package's usefulness, and is presumably trivial 
>>to fix".  It's usually for things like typos.
>
>I am no expert in bug severity assessment, and it seems to me that the 
>bug matches the above definition quite well: it does not affect 
>parted's overall usefulness, affects only uncommon use cases (d-i + 
>ext4 without journal) and is rather trivial to fix (reorder filesystem 
>feature checks).

The thing is that it's inconsistent to both say it's minor, and also 
push for it to be fixed in trixie (where only fixes for >= important 
bugs are allowed at this point in key packages).  If you're asking me to 
apply for a freeze exception from the release team, they're not likely 
to be impressed by a minor bug.

If you're arguing that it meets the definition of important ("a bug 
which has a major effect on the usability of a package, without 
rendering it completely unusable to everyone"), that would be a 
different matter.  Is that the case?  I might be willing to cherry-pick 
the patch from upstream if the argument is that the bug should actually 
have a higher severity.

(I'm not just being pedantic here - at the moment there's no point in me 
spending time on things the release team is just going to reject.)

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]