[Aptitude-devel] Bug#861425: priority difference

[Julien Cristau]

Control: reassign -1 aptitude
Control: severity -1 minor
Control: retitle -1 aptitude: package priority mismatch

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 22:40:01 +0200, SZÉPE Viktor wrote:

> Package: mirrors
> Severity: important
> 
> Hello!
> 
> The Packages files contains "optional".
> 
> $ wget -qO- http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stretch/main/binary-arm64/Packages.gz|zgrep
> -Fx -A18 "Package: aptitude"|tail -n 1
> Priority: optional
> 
> The package contains "important".
> 
> In
> http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/aptitude/aptitude_0.8.7-1_amd64.deb
> control files has:
> Priority: important
> 
> Please advise.

The Packages file contains the authoritative information, the priority
in the package itself can pretty much be ignored.

Cheers,
Julien