Package: lintian
Version: 2.134.0
Severity: wishlist

Dear lintian maintainers,

could a warning be raised if a package sets the Priority: field in its Source: stanza?

The Priority: field in the Source: stanza is inherited by the binary packages stanzas, but it is rarely the case that all binary packages should have the same Priority (unless it is "optional", but that is handled by another lintian check).

This not-so-well-known inheritance mechanism leads to issues like <https://bugs.debian.org/1132985>

Regards,

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Gioele Barabucci

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