Bug#708430: Increasing severity

[Colin Watson]

Control: severity -1 important

On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:58:59AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> severity 708430 serious

I'm sorry that I haven't dealt with this yet - I do intend to, I hope
before Christmas - but please stop fiddling with the severity on this
bug.  Trying to force the issue with the severity doesn't impress me,
and this bug requires a good deal of care in order to avoid ending up in
an arms race where different OSes all try to install to the fallback
path in order to avoid firmware bugs and we end up right back in the bad
old days where installing one OS breaks another.

Note that the requested behaviour explicitly contravenes the UEFI
specification, and for good reason.  I agreed with Steve at the
mini-conference in Cambridge recently that we probably have to do it
anyway to cope with broken firmware, but that does not make an RC bug.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]