On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:23:57PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:48:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > In the future, please upload security fixes with urgency=high.
> 
> I'm assuming this is only appropriate if the vulnerability affects
> testing?  Since the main impact of setting the 'urgency' field is
> affecting propagation time into testing, it doesn't seem appropriate to
> give higher priority to a package which only suffered from a
> vulnerability in the unstable version.

The other effect is that the changelog entries are sorted to the top in
apt-listchanges.

(and no, if the vulnerability doesn't affect testing or stable, this isn't
particularly important)

-- 
 - mdz


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