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Re: Upload of GNOME 2.8 to unstable



On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 05:48:44PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:38:59PM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > On Mon, 15 Nov 2004, Colin Watson wrote:
> > >   * Please make sure to get all the libraries through as quickly as
> > >     possible to reduce the impact on the rest of the distribution.
> > >     Upload with urgency=low to start with, but we may be willing to
> > >     speed things up once we see that things are going well. Coordinate
> > >     any necessary hints on #debian-release for speed.
> > 
> > This point is self-contradictory and spells disaster:
> > 
> > 1) You cannot have a rapid deployment with urgency=low as a priority.
> 
> The 'urgency' field is mostly only relevant to propagation to testing.
> The release managers have the ability to override this field. Q.E.D.

I was also under the impression (from joeyh, but he did speak about .udebs),
that it also affected priority of the autobuilders in some way, that is
higher urgency packages get prioritized higher in the autobuilder queues.

But naturally, this may be wrong.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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