Comment 7 for bug 12710

(In reply to comment #4)
> Excuse me, I undrestand that it is upstream problem, but I do not understand why
> it is "normal", not "major" severity.

This bug does not have a major effect on the usability of Ubuntu; it affects
only a rarely-used library which is not used by any functionality in Ubuntu.
That is, we base bug severities on the distribution as a whole, not on a
particular package. Even if dhcp3-dev were completely broken, it is not a
critical package.

> so, it is really strange), here is a simple fix:

Thanks, but this is not what was lacking. Upstream made an explicit decision
not to install this library, and without knowing why, it's not clear that it
should be installed. If this has changed in newer upstream code, we can merge
their fix.