Comment 0 for bug 253380

In Ubuntu, a bug reported about a package in Universe may be of critical importance for people who have installed that package, but of low importance for Ubuntu as a whole, because hardly anyone installs the package. Unfortunately, Launchpad requires these two to be represented by a single Importance value.

This is causing difficulty for the QA team: either release management is made more difficult because bugs are marked Critical or High when they are not important, or QA is made difficult for rarely-used packages because they are only ever allowed to use Low importance (or Low and Medium).

This could be fixed by letting bugs have a separate Importance value for the distribution as a whole and for individual packages in that distribution.