Aurelien Jarno <[email protected]> writes: > On 2026-01-01 11:41, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> How about: >> Specifying the ``Priority`` field in source package control fields is >> no longer recommended unless the priority needs to be changed from the >> default. If the field is omitted, the default source package priority >> is ``optional``, and binary packages inherit the priority from the >> source package. >> It's not really relevant to the user that dpkg is the component that sets >> the default, only what the semantics are. I think this wording may also >> make it clearer that you do still need to think about whether you should >> provide Priority because the default is wrong. > Thanks for proposing this, I find it quite good. Belatedly, this has been changed for the next release. Thank you! -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
