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Bug#679562: developers-reference: note that it is possible for Release Team to override urgency



Hi, 

you either want to install aspell, or you might want to contact
debian-l10-english for a review of your patch.

On Fri Jun 29, 2012 at 21:14:45 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Package: developers-reference
> Version: 3.4.8
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> 
> During the NM process my AM and I discovered that it is not documented that
> the Release team can override the urgency of a package. I informed with the
> Release team how to do this [1] and my intent to document this. At least one
> of them thinks it is not worth to document this, but we disagree. Could you
> please apply the attached patch to the developers reference?
> 
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2012/06/msg00731.html
> 
> - -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers precise-updates
>   APT policy: (500, 'precise-updates'), (500, 'precise-security'), (500, 'precise'), (100, 'precise-backports')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

> Index: pkgs.dbk
> ===================================================================
> --- pkgs.dbk	(revision 9236)
> +++ pkgs.dbk	(working copy)
> @@ -2388,7 +2388,8 @@
>  the urgency is sticky, meaning that the highest urgency uploaded since the
>  previous <literal>testing</literal> transition is taken into account.  Those
>  delays may be doubled during a freeze, or <literal>testing</literal>
> -transitions may be switched off altogether;
> +transitions may be switched off altogether. The Debian Release team can override
> +the ugency;
>  </para>
>  </listitem>
>  <listitem>


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