(thanks Colin and Daniel for answering this before me :) ) I was asked this same question in a private email, a few hours ago, here goes the answer I gave:
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 03:49 -0700, Someone wrote: > I'd like some clarification. Considering that bug 57153 was "high" > (I'd have considered it "critical" myself. It broke ex which renders > Ubuntu useless for the vast majority of users), why would your patch > be "urgency=low". > > I'd love to know what would warrant "medium" or "high". urgency=high has no influence on the speed a package is built/published on Ubuntu (meaning this field is not used by Ubuntu's build system). Ubuntu uses different algorithms to calculate the priority of a build: -security & -updates get higher priority, packages on main get higher priority than packages on universe, packages with many dependencies (such as xorg-server) get *very* high priority. In other words: this xorg-server update for Dapper was built *immediately*, after it was uploaded to the archives. Finally, I can assure you this bug was taken care of with extreme care, and in a rather urgent manner. (I started dealing with it as soon as I woke up in the morning) Rodrigo -- xorg-server 1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10.3 breaks X: "no screens found" https://launchpad.net/bugs/57153 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
