Re: Proposal: Optional `Priority: optional` and changed `Section` fall-back

[Niels Thykier]

Daniel Baumann:

Hi,

both sound good (dropping mandatory priority is nice and consistent,
fixing unknown section behaviour too), thanks!

Thanks for the feedback. :)

ideally these changes would be in dpkg in trixie, but maintainers would
start dropping priority fields *after* trixie so that for backports we
woudn't need to add it back en masse.

Regards,
Daniel

For now, I have found one case in dak that I raised an MR for.
https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/-/merge_requests/284



Best regards,
Niels

I am personally hoping for Trixie as well. Though I am waiting for feedback before calling it just in case we missed an important case. My understanding is that the case would be safe, but annoying to the FTP masters (ending up in NEW for manual reject rather than automatic reject). Either way, it is a 3-line change.

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