Bug#412634: 5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative list?
usertags 412634 =normative wording
thanks
Here is a proposed patch to put a normative list of supported Urgency
values into Policy and to reconcile the two different informative lists
currently there by removing the footnote in the changelog section and
having that section simply defer to the Urgency control field definition
as it does for other data that goes into control fields.
The supported Urgency values are set by the dak configuration (and by the
britney configuration), so they're not set in stone, but I think a
normative list is a reasonable thing to put into Policy. In practice,
they're rather unlikely to change, and Debian maintainers need to know
what the supported values are in order to create packages that dak will
accept.
Comments?
--- orig/policy.sgml
+++ mod/policy.sgml
@@ -1516,14 +1516,7 @@
<tt><var>keyword</var>=<var>value</var></tt> settings in the
<prgn>dpkg</prgn> changelog format (though there is
currently only one useful <var>keyword</var>,
- <tt>urgency</tt>).<footnote>
- Recognized urgency values are <tt>low</tt>,
- <tt>medium</tt>, <tt>high</tt> and <tt>emergency</tt>.
- They have an effect on how quickly a package will be
- considered for inclusion into the <tt>testing</tt>
- distribution, and give an indication of the importance
- of any fixes included in this upload.
- </footnote>
+ <tt>urgency</tt>).
</p>
<p>
@@ -2950,10 +2943,19 @@
<p>
This is a description of how important it is to upgrade to
this version from previous ones. It consists of a single
- keyword usually taking one of the values <tt>low</tt>,
- <tt>medium</tt> or <tt>high</tt> (not case-sensitive)
- followed by an optional commentary (separated by a space)
- which is usually in parentheses. For example:
+ keyword taking one of the values <tt>low</tt>,
+ <tt>medium</tt>, <tt>high</tt>, <tt>emergency</tt>, or
+ <tt>critical</tt><footnote>
+ Other urgency values are supported with configuration
+ changes in the archive software but are not used in Debian.
+ The urgency affects how quickly a package will be considered
+ for inclusion into the <tt>testing</tt> distribution and
+ gives an indication of the importance of any fixes included
+ in the upload. <tt>Emergency</tt> and <tt>critical</tt> are
+ treated as synonymous.
+ </footnote> (not case-sensitive) followed by an optional
+ commentary (separated by a space) which is usually in
+ parentheses. For example:
<example>
Urgency: low (HIGH for users of diversions)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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