Bug#484511: Urgencies should all be lower case
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Luk Claes <luk@debian.org> writes:
>
>> I thought policy was documenting practice and not the other way around?
>
> Hm, no, that's not my perception of Policy. New Policy changes should
> reflect practice in Debian first unless the problem is significant enough
> that Policy needs to pick a side before one wins in practice, but once
> something is in Policy, practice needs to conform with Policy and not the
> other way around. Otherwise, what would be the point in having a Policy
> document?
>
> Of course, if someone believes Policy is wrong, they can always propose to
> change it. In this case, though, I think Policy's current position is
> also the correct technical one to take.
Good luck with convincing the ones implementing it...
Why should it be case insensitive? It's not case insensitive now and I
do not see any technical reason to change that. It's not that package
names, sections or anything else is case insensitive, is it? Like
explained before, an urgency that is not existing (for instance one with
capitals) is treated as low urgency at least in britney.
Cheers
Luk
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