Comment 44 for bug 57153

(thanks Colin and Daniel for answering this before me :) )

I was asked this same question in a private email, a few hours ago, here goes the answer I gave:

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 03:49 -0700, Someone wrote:
> I'd like some clarification. Considering that bug 57153 was "high"
> (I'd have considered it "critical" myself. It broke ex which renders
> Ubuntu useless for the vast majority of users), why would your patch
> be "urgency=low".
>
> I'd love to know what would warrant "medium" or "high".

   urgency=high has no influence on the speed a package is
built/published on Ubuntu (meaning this field is not used by Ubuntu's build
system). Ubuntu uses different algorithms to calculate the priority of a
build: -security & -updates get higher priority, packages on main get
higher priority than packages on universe, packages with many
dependencies (such as xorg-server) get *very* high priority.

   In other words: this xorg-server update for Dapper was built
*immediately*, after it was uploaded to the archives.

   Finally, I can assure you this bug was taken care of with extreme
care, and in a rather urgent manner. (I started dealing with it as soon
as I woke up in the morning)

   Rodrigo