Bug#671066: ftp.debian.org: upload urgencies should not accumulate

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>]

reassign 671066 release.debian.org
thanks

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> I see that diffutils_1:3.2-6, which was uploaded with urgency=low,
> will only need 5 days to enter testing, probably because I made
> 1:3.2-4 to be urgency=medium. I don't know when you changed the
> algorithm but I think it is a bad change.
>
> In this case, the reason to modify the urgency was that 1:3.2-4 just
> tried to disable a test which failed, while 1:3.2-6 has real code
> changes which IMHO, deserve the usual 10 days in unstable.
>
> The traditional meaning of "urgency" has always been "the time
> required for *this* upload to supersede the version currently in
> testing" and that's why I used urgency=low in 1:3.2-6.
>
> However, if urgencies accumulate, how are we supposed to really mean
> "10 days" after an upload not of low priority? It's impossible!
>
> So please reconsider the way urgencies are handled. The traditional
> way worked well enough and the current behaviour is a lot confusing.

Reassigned to release.d.o as they handle migration to testing.

Regards,
Ansgar