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

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 01.05.2012 18:23, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org> (01/05/2012):
> > 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.
>
> I don't think this changed recently, it's been the case for as long 
> as I
> remember.

It's been that way for at least four years; I suspect a good deal 
longer but don't have the evidence immediately available.  The start of 
the release team's britney1 repository, when we took over direct running 
of it rather than ftp-master doing so on our behalf, already includes 
urgencies being "sticky".

Regards,

Adam