Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Niels Thykier writes ("Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored"):
> Britney does not have access to the changelog directly and it sounds too
> resource intensive to do directly in britney.

I suspected that would be the case.

> There are three alternatives to solving this bug AFAICT:
> 
>  1) dak (or a replacement service) excludes urgency entries irrelevant
>     for britney, so those entries are never included in the data set.

If the information is provided for the benefit of britney that seems
an obvious solution.  AIUI someone with a suitable dak hat is maybe
looking at this now...

> Then orthogonal to these proposals, there is a point about whether the
> entries in the data files should be computed from .changes files or from
> changelog files.  It is certainly relevant, but that is a problem that
> should be solved in the service providing the data and not britney.

Indeed so.  That's not really a service, it's dpkg-dev.  If we agree
on the desired semantics I will file a bug against dpkg-dev.  In
practice we might want to get that update into a stable update for
people who are doing their development on stable.

> Hopefully that clarifies the situation.

Thanks, yes, I feel less confused.

Ian.

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