another thing concerning urgencies

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Frank,

(all I wrote in the first part seems to be wrong, but still
interestingly I believe that I heard that from my AM, see below second
part)

one more thing: AFAIR (but I might be wrong) the urgency is NOT to speed
up the transition to testing due to serious bugs, but to ensure that a
buggy package in unstable does not enter testing before a new fixed one.

Assume that package
	....-3
was uploaded with a serious bug to unstable with normal urgency. After
two days this bug is found, the package would go into testing in 8 days.
One can upload a package
	....-4
with urgency medium which will go into unstable in 6 days and thus
overtaking the buggy -3 version.

This is what I remember from my AM, I got this question once. But
reading the policy I see something different:
5.6.17. `Urgency'
-----------------

     This is a description of how important it is to upgrade to this
     version from previous ones.  It consists of a single keyword taking
     one of the values `low', `medium', `high', `emergency', or
     `critical'[1] (not case-sensitive) followed by an optional commentary
     (separated by a space) which is usually in parentheses.  For example:

            Urgency: low (HIGH for users of diversions)

     The value of this field is usually extracted from the
     `debian/changelog' file - see Section 4.4, `Debian changelog:
     `debian/changelog''.


So forget what I said, sorry for the noise, but I am still puzzled a
bit.

Best wishes

Norbert

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