On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 14:30 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Adam D. Barratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > During a discussion on #debian-release, it was confirmed that britney > > treats urgencies as case-sensitive - i.e. high != HIGH. lintian's check > > for valid urgencies, conversely, is case-insensitive. > > > > The check should be modified to be case-sensitive. As "HIGH" is not a > > valid urgency as far as britney is concerned, a package uploaded with > > such an urgency will be treated as having the default urgency value, > > which is currently "low". > > Policy says britney is wrong, so this is either a bug in britney (my > inclination) or a bug in both lintian and Policy. > > See Policy 5.16.17.
Thanks; I obviously overlooked the fact that policy specifies the field to be case insensitive. For what it's worth, if it's a bug in britney then it's also a bug in dak as the latter will produce a warning for upper-case versions (which is what lead to the discussion mentioned above). Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
