Bug#546351: Status change

[Felix Zielcke]

Am Samstag, den 12.09.2009, 23:19 +0100 schrieb John Winters:
> Incidentally, I notice you've changed the status of this bug from
> "Important" to "Wishlist".  I'm not going to start ping-ponging it, but
> the Debian bug specifications define "Important" as:
> 
>    "a bug which has a major effect on the usability of a package,
>     without rendering it completely unusable to everyone."
> 
> Now the lack of documentation for grub-efi renders it unusable to anyone
> who doesn't have the specialist knowledge to cope without it.  The
> subset of the population which *does* have that specialist knowledge is
> apparently so small that it doesn't even include the maintainers of the
> package.  By any definition, that's a problem which has "a major effect
> on the usability of a package", certainly not a mere "Wishlist" item.
> 
> John

Since when is documentation which doestn't exist at all considered as a
bug?
Wikipedia says in the `Software Bug' as first sentence:
A software bug is the common term used to describe an error, flaw,
mistake, failure, or fault in a computer program or system that produces
an incorrect or unexpected result, or causes it to behave in unintended
ways

Is the Debian definition of bug different from that?

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Felix Zielcke
Proud Debian Maintainer