In message <200009301640.LAA23073@entilzha.cc.iastate.edu>, "Tracy J. Di Marco 
White" writes:

>I complained about the same thing on alpha probably a year or more ago,
>I suppose I should have send-pr'd it.
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/1999/06/03/0000.html

Yes, you should ;-)

>I'm never sure if the problem is something I did wrong, or something
>broken, so I prefer to run problems by the mailing lists before I send-pr.

Yes, it's broken.

>I'm also never sure about the various paraments for severity and priority,
>but I suppose I can let someone else change those.

Better to report than not to report, by all means.
The send-pr manpage tries to give descriptive meanings for those fields...

--jhawk