Two questions about build-path reproducibility in Debian

[James Addison]

Hi Vagrant,

Narrowing in on (or perhaps nitpicking) a detail:

On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 20:41, Vagrant Cascadian
<vagrant at reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
>
> On 2024-03-04, John Gilmore wrote:
> > Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> >> > > to make it easier to debug other issues, although deprioritizing them
> >> > > makes sense, given buildd.debian.org now normalizes them.
> >
> > James Addison via rb-general <rb-general at lists.reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
> >> Ok, thank you both.  A number of these bugs are currently recorded at severity
> >> level 'normal'; unless told not to, I'll spend some time to double-check their
> >> details and - assuming all looks OK - will bulk downgrade them to 'wishlist'
> >> severity a week or so from now.
>
> Well, I think we should change it to "minor" rather than "wishlist"
> severity, but that may be splitting hairs; I do not find a huge amount
> of difference between debian bug severities... they are pretty much
> either critical/serious/grave and thus must be fixed, or
> normal/minor/wishlist and fixed when someone feels like it.

The Debian bug severity descriptions[1] provide some more nuance, and that
reassures me that wishlist should be appropriate for most of these bugs
(although I'll inspect their contents before making any changes).

Regards,
James

[1] - https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities