Niels Thykier writes ("Bug#831699: release.debian.org: urgency is sticky across
dists - low urgency on sid upload ignored"):
> Britney does not have access to the changelog directly and it sounds too
> resource intensive to do directly in britney.
I suspected that would be the case.
> There are three alternatives to solving this bug AFAICT:
>
> 1) dak (or a replacement service) excludes urgency entries irrelevant
> for britney, so those entries are never included in the data set.
If the information is provided for the benefit of britney that seems
an obvious solution. AIUI someone with a suitable dak hat is maybe
looking at this now...
> Then orthogonal to these proposals, there is a point about whether the
> entries in the data files should be computed from .changes files or from
> changelog files. It is certainly relevant, but that is a problem that
> should be solved in the service providing the data and not britney.
Indeed so. That's not really a service, it's dpkg-dev. If we agree
on the desired semantics I will file a bug against dpkg-dev. In
practice we might want to get that update into a stable update for
people who are doing their development on stable.
> Hopefully that clarifies the situation.
Thanks, yes, I feel less confused.
Ian.
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