Bug#1125967: libconfig-model-dpkg-perl: cme can add "Priority: optional"

[gregor herrmann]

On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:30:42 +0100, Dominique Dumont wrote:

>With 3.017:
>- a bug fix to not write a value that is identical to upstream_default value
>- a conditional setup where upstream_default is optional for Std-version >= 4.7.3  and default is optional for Std-version < 4.7.3
>
>The second change is what writes back Priority/optional field with Std-version = 4.7.2.

Ack, thanks.

>However, cme cannot decide if  user wants to reformat without 
>changing anything (dpt-fixup) or want to drop unnecessary fields 
>(Andreas' bug). So you may have case where Priority/optional is 
>dropped when running «cme modify dpkg-control -save».
>What do you prefer ?

I thought that `cme modify dpkg-control -save` doesn't change 
anything (no modifications requested), and that `cme fix 
dpkg-control` (as used by Andreas, and also by dpt-fixup later) is 
supposed to change/fix things. Looking at cme(1p) still makes me 
believe that this is not a completely stupid assumption :)

Taking a step back: The idea of running `cme modify dpkg-control -save` 
early is to have the (pure) reformatting in a separate git commit 
before making any specific changes (also as atomic as possible), and 
I don't know what's the best way to achieve this. `cme fix` should of 
course drop "Priority: optional" as requested by Andreas; if `cme 
modify` without any arguments can be made to act no-changing that 
would be great, otherwise a `cme reformat` might be an idea? Or `cme 
run reformat`?

>PS: you can use «cme run update-standards-version» instead of these lines:

Oh, nice, thank you!


Cheers,
gregor

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