Re: A thought on urgency
Seth R Arnold wrote:
> > If a user sees one package with Urgency-Serial = 1109 and another with
> > Urgency-Serial = 10, which will they think is more ugent? It won't
> > matter that the first is sendmail and had a bunch of security holes 5 to
> > 10 years ago, while the second is a new urgent upload.
>
> At the risk of being ostracized for being a smartass, the point of the
> field isn't for humans; it is for software to make automatic updating of
> systems easier and less prone to surprises.
Yes, that's exactly my point. You're already saying this field is not
for humans. My point is we have striven to keep all fields in the
control file directly usable by humans.
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see shy jo
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