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

[Adam Borowski]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 08:38:39PM +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> > 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.

Technically, yes.  If your filesystem is ext2, and there's a process that
hasn't been killed, and continues to write after the final sync.

But if you use ext2 for anything, you made the decision yourself.

> 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.

According to my last data, 14% of unstable users; less on stable as those
tend to be non-technical users.  Not a "very small minority".


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