https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46148
--- Comment #17 from Zebediah Figura z.figura12@gmail.com --- (In reply to Kevin Grittner from comment #10)
(In reply to Olivier F. R. Dierick from comment #9)
severity is not major.
A definition of what qualifies for each level would be helpful. To me, a regression changing a program which has been "gold" for years to completely unusable seemed more severe than "normal". Is that really a normal thing to have occur in a new release?
The definition you're looking for is listed on https://wiki.winehq.org/Bugs, which should be linked from the "file a new bug" page. Specifically:
*Major* for major loss of functionality for a wide range of applications
I won't pretend it's "normal" for a commit to break a popular application, but it can happen, and because Wine supports a huge range of applications, we don't really stop everything to deal with one. That's not to say that a regression doesn't get special attention, though. Personally, as a developer, I'm much more concerned with bugs tagged 'regression' than those tagged 'major', but perhaps others differ.