Bug#484359: [frontend/lintian] Urgencies are case-sensitive
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 14:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> > During a discussion on #debian-release, it was confirmed that britney
> > treats urgencies as case-sensitive - i.e. high != HIGH. lintian's check
> > for valid urgencies, conversely, is case-insensitive.
> >
> > The check should be modified to be case-sensitive. As "HIGH" is not a
> > valid urgency as far as britney is concerned, a package uploaded with
> > such an urgency will be treated as having the default urgency value,
> > which is currently "low".
>
> Policy says britney is wrong, so this is either a bug in britney (my
> inclination) or a bug in both lintian and Policy.
>
> See Policy 5.16.17.
Thanks; I obviously overlooked the fact that policy specifies the field
to be case insensitive.
For what it's worth, if it's a bug in britney then it's also a bug in
dak as the latter will produce a warning for upper-case versions (which
is what lead to the discussion mentioned above).
Regards,
Adam
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