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Re: Upload of GNOME 2.8 to unstable



On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:38:59PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> >   * Please make sure to get all the libraries through as quickly as
> >     possible to reduce the impact on the rest of the distribution.
> >     Upload with urgency=low to start with, but we may be willing to
> >     speed things up once we see that things are going well. Coordinate
> >     any necessary hints on #debian-release for speed.
> 
> This point is self-contradictory and spells disaster:
> 
> 1) You cannot have a rapid deployment with urgency=low as a priority.

The 'urgency' field is mostly only relevant to propagation to testing.
The release managers have the ability to override this field. Q.E.D.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]



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