Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here is a proposed patch to put a normative list of supported Urgency > values into Policy and to reconcile the two different informative lists > currently there by removing the footnote in the changelog section and > having that section simply defer to the Urgency control field definition > as it does for other data that goes into control fields. > > The supported Urgency values are set by the dak configuration (and by > the britney configuration), so they're not set in stone, but I think a > normative list is a reasonable thing to put into Policy. In practice, > they're rather unlikely to change, and Debian maintainers need to know > what the supported values are in order to create packages that dak will > accept.
I haven't received any feedback on this patch, but I think it's obviously correct. I'm therefore committing it. If anyone has any objections, say so now. > --- orig/policy.sgml > +++ mod/policy.sgml > @@ -1516,14 +1516,7 @@ > <tt><var>keyword</var>=<var>value</var></tt> settings in the > <prgn>dpkg</prgn> changelog format (though there is > currently only one useful <var>keyword</var>, > - <tt>urgency</tt>).<footnote> > - Recognized urgency values are <tt>low</tt>, > - <tt>medium</tt>, <tt>high</tt> and <tt>emergency</tt>. > - They have an effect on how quickly a package will be > - considered for inclusion into the <tt>testing</tt> > - distribution, and give an indication of the importance > - of any fixes included in this upload. > - </footnote> > + <tt>urgency</tt>). > </p> > > <p> > @@ -2950,10 +2943,19 @@ > <p> > This is a description of how important it is to upgrade to > this version from previous ones. It consists of a single > - keyword usually taking one of the values <tt>low</tt>, > - <tt>medium</tt> or <tt>high</tt> (not case-sensitive) > - followed by an optional commentary (separated by a space) > - which is usually in parentheses. For example: > + keyword taking one of the values <tt>low</tt>, > + <tt>medium</tt>, <tt>high</tt>, <tt>emergency</tt>, or > + <tt>critical</tt><footnote> > + Other urgency values are supported with configuration > + changes in the archive software but are not used in Debian. > + The urgency affects how quickly a package will be considered > + for inclusion into the <tt>testing</tt> distribution and > + gives an indication of the importance of any fixes included > + in the upload. <tt>Emergency</tt> and <tt>critical</tt> are > + treated as synonymous. > + </footnote> (not case-sensitive) followed by an optional > + commentary (separated by a space) which is usually in > + parentheses. For example: > > <example> > Urgency: low (HIGH for users of diversions) -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
