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When is it acceptable to set Urgency: high on upload?
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| Hilko Bengen 2004-03-15, 6:34 am |
| Section 5.6.16. `Urgency' of the Debian Policy Manual says:
This is a description of how important it is to upgrade to this
version from previous ones.
However, I didn't find any information about what are considered
"important" reasons. Does fixing an Important bug justify setting
urgency: high?
-Hilko
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| Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2004-03-15, 6:34 am |
| On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Hilko Bengen wrote:
> Section 5.6.16. `Urgency' of the Debian Policy Manual says:
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> This is a description of how important it is to upgrade to this
> version from previous ones.
>
> However, I didn't find any information about what are considered
> "important" reasons. Does fixing an Important bug justify setting
> urgency: high?
You are the maintainer, it is at your discretion. The question to
ask yourself is:
1. Is it important enough to require higher priority on auto-builders,
and to go through the testing scripts faster? If so, set it to
medium or high.
Note that priorities are "sticky" for testing. The highest one since
the last move of the package to testing is the one that holds, so
you do not need to keep uploading with a high priority until the
package moves to testing.
2. Is it imperative that an upload be installed everywhere by tomorrow?
(usually, for remote-root-roles and unrelated-data-loss bugs). If so,
set it to "emergency".
Use of "emergency" is extremely rare, fortunately.
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| Number Six 2004-03-15, 10:36 am |
| On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:25:16AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Hilko Bengen wrote:
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> 1. Is it important enough to require higher priority on auto-builders,
> and to go through the testing scripts faster? If so, set it to
> medium or high.
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> 2. Is it imperative that an upload be installed everywhere by tomorrow?
> (usually, for remote-root-roles and unrelated-data-loss bugs). If so,
> set it to "emergency".
The last time this came up I was under the impression the response was
if it fixes a security hole, it's High. For everything else, it's Low.
And no use case for Medium was presented, and this fact was commented
upon.
Am I mis-remembering this?
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| Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 2004-03-15, 10:36 am |
| On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Number Six wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:25:16AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
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> The last time this came up I was under the impression the response was
> if it fixes a security hole, it's High. For everything else, it's Low.
> And no use case for Medium was presented, and this fact was commented
> upon.
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> Am I mis-remembering this?
<shrugs> I don't recall.
I can describe what *I* do, though: all my security updates go as "high",
all important (for the end user) bug fixes as "medium". I have used
"emergency" only once, I don't even remember when (it was a quite serious
security hole).
Even with such a broad criteria, about 80% of my uploads are of low urgency,
(since I don't do an upload for every trivial bug I fix. If I did, about
99% would be low priority ;-) ).
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| Branden Robinson 2004-03-16, 4:34 am |
| On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 03:56:06AM -0800, Number Six wrote:
> The last time this came up I was under the impression the response was
> if it fixes a security hole, it's High. For everything else, it's Low.
> And no use case for Medium was presented, and this fact was commented
> upon.
I personally use urgency=medium for non-security-related RC bugs.
When I set the urgency to anything other than "low", I also mention why
as one of the first entries in the Debian changelog. That way people
can see my reasoning and tell me if they disagree. No one's bothered to
do so in years, so they like either don't care, or my usage of "medium"
and "high"[1] is not considered improper.
[1] I've never had cause to use "emergency".
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