Re: What is the urgency field (in debian/changelog) for?

["Kartik Mistry" <kartik.mistry@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Siegfried-Angel
<siggi.gevatter@gmail.com> wrote:
>  I'd like to ask you where I could find an explanation about what the
>  'urgency' field in debian/changelog is for, as it has been intriguing
>  me for quite some time now.
>
>  I've checked the Debian Policy Manual and the Debian New Maintainers'
>  Guide but couldn't find much information about it in neither of them.

Hi,

Read: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f36

"The urgency affects how quickly a package will be considered for
inclusion into the testing distribution and gives an indication of the
importance of any fixes included in the upload."

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