[Pkg-jed-commit] r774 - in jed/branches/0.99.19/debian: . patches

G. Milde milde at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Jun 11 07:20:00 UTC 2007


On 10.06.07, Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Sun 10. Jun, 17:02 (+0200):
> > * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007-06-10 13:32]:
> > 
> > > No, it's not the only purpose. Policy 5.6.17 says ???This is a
> > > description of how important it is to upgrade to this version from
> > > previous ones.??? 

> > I see now what you intended with "urgency=medium".  Note that the
> > information in the urgency field is ignored by apt and friends.
> > Changing the value from "high" to "medium" has absolutely no impact
> > on how fast the users will upgrade the package.  They need to use
> > apt-get for upgrading the package anyway and I doubt that end-users
> > will notice the value in the urgency field.

When updating packages (using aptitude), I quite regularely have a
look at the changelog and use the urgency field as indicator wheter I
should update this particular package. 

> In <20070530083503.GA5040 at localhost> Günter wrote:

> As I do not actively monitor the development of the "experimental"
> branch, this is valid for all uploads to "experimental".

Still valid.

Günter



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