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5.6.17 ‘Urgency’
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This is a description of how important it is to upgrade to this version
from previous ones.  It consists of a single keyword taking one of the
values ‘low’, ‘medium’, ‘high’, ‘emergency’, or ‘critical’ (1) (not
case-sensitive) followed by an optional commentary (separated by a
space) which is usually in parentheses.  For example:

     Urgency: low (HIGH for users of diversions)

The value of this field is usually extracted from the ‘debian/changelog’
file - see Note: Debian changelog; debian/changelog.

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   (1) Other urgency values are supported with configuration changes in
the archive software but are not used in Debian.  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.  ‘Emergency’ and ‘critical’ are treated as
synonymous.