Generally you should deal with bug reports on your packages as described in
<xref linkend="bug-handling"/> . However, there's a special category of bugs
that you need to take care of — the so-called release-critical bugs (RC
-bugs). All bug reports that have severity <emphasis>critical</emphasis>,
-<emphasis>grave</emphasis> or <emphasis>serious</emphasis> are considered to
+bugs). All bug reports that have severity <literal>critical</literal>,
+<literal>grave</literal> or <literal>serious</literal> are considered to
have an impact on whether the package can be released in the next stable
release of Debian. These bugs can delay the Debian release and/or can justify
the removal of a package at freeze time. That's why these bugs need to be