[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#872039: why the severity?

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

> Please tell me why this would be serious: any filesystem from this millenium
> can handle unclean shutdown fine -- especially if there's a sync before
> reboot/poweroff.

That's hardly an argument. There is still very much the possibility that
this bug causes data-loss, so the severity is definitely justified.

On the other hand, only a very small minority are still using sysvinit on
Debian, so this I think it's ok to have the severity set to serious.

Adrian

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