[Aptitude-devel] Bug#325015: aptitude: ... option to select upgradable packages with urgency>=smth

[Daniel Hartwig]

tags 325015 + wontfix
thanks

Urgency is mainly intended for the archive maintainence software.  It
is not presently made available to APT, only in the .changes file.

> The urgency affects how quickly a package will be considered for
> inclusion into the testing distribution and gives an indication of
> the importance of any fixes included in the upload.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Urgency
[2] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f42

Andrei Demekhov <andrei at appl.sci-nnov.ru> wrote:
> Aptitude offers manual inspection of changelog, and it probably could do
> some parsing like apt-listchanges which shows only recent changes.

Not sure how apt-listchanges does this, but it sounds like this would
generate a massive amount of extra activity on the mirrors.

2c