uppercase urgencies. Not.

[James Westby]

On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 16:00 +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Stefano Zacchiroli [Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:21:18 +0200]:
> 
> > Quoting the current UNRELEASED changelog:
> 
> >   [ James Westby ]
> >     * Allow urgency=HIGH and other words made of capital letters there, see
> >      fuse's changelog.
> 
> > I can't find anymore the reference to that, but I've recently read that
> > upper case urgencies will be treated by dak as "low", no matter what. We
> > should be consistent with that of course.
> 
> There is an ongoing dispute between Policy and ftpmaster/release team on
> this:
> 
>     http://bugs.debian.org/484511
> 
> (Basically Policy has said for years that it is case-insensitive, and
> dak/britney have treated non-lowercase values as invalid, for years
> too.)
> 
> Best world scenario is that this gets resolved quickly, and we can just
> delay the upload a bit until that happens.

Thanks for the information both of you. I'm subscribed to the bug 
report, so when it gets closed I'll make the attribute return whatever
policy says that it should.

Thanks,

James