Re: How to determine the urgency of an upload

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 13-Jan-04, 06:15 (CST), Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote: 
> I do think it would also be perfectly sane to upload something with
> only trivial changes with urgency high, if there is a nice window for
> testing propagation currently, bacause the chances for introducing new
> breakage by trivial changes are small.

Yeah, right. The chances for introducing breakage by trivial changes
is *huge*, because the maintainer tends not to test it sufficiently,
*because* it's trivial. And yes, I've been guilty of this.

A pure text change might be acceptable, but then a pure text change is
unlikely to be significant enough to justify "high".


> E.g. if I had a version that was already waiting 9 days and was not
> inhibited by dependencies currently I would not think it to be
> unreasonable to upload a version that _only_ added three updated
> debconf-translations with urgency high.

You should wait the extra day, let the existing version go into testing,
and then upload the updated translations.

Steve

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