Bug#928992: priority-extra-is-replaced-by-priority-optional doesn't catch some packages

[s3v <c0llapsed@yahoo.it>]

Thanks a lot for explaining Lintian's behavior.
I thought priority information come from package file...

I've opened another bug report for (hopefully) solving
this issue.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929087

Thanks again for your work and yourtime.

Kind regards.



Il 14/05/19 22:24, Adam D. Barratt ha scritto:
> This is due to the fact that the priority fields in the packages files
> come from the archive's override lists, which may well not match the
> values present in the binary packages.
> 
> If you check the latter, you will find that they are expected and in
> line with Lintian's output:
> 
> adsb@coccia:~$ dpkg-deb -I /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/a/allure/allure_0.8.3.0-3_amd64.deb | grep Priority
>  Priority: optional
> adsb@coccia:~$ dpkg-deb -I /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils-i686-gnu_2.31.1-16_amd64.deb | grep Priority
>  Priority: optional
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam
> 
>