Thanks a lot for explaining Lintian's behavior. I thought priority information come from package file...
I've opened another bug report for (hopefully) solving this issue. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929087 Thanks again for your work and yourtime. Kind regards. Il 14/05/19 22:24, Adam D. Barratt ha scritto: > This is due to the fact that the priority fields in the packages files > come from the archive's override lists, which may well not match the > values present in the binary packages. > > If you check the latter, you will find that they are expected and in > line with Lintian's output: > > adsb@coccia:~$ dpkg-deb -I > /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/a/allure/allure_0.8.3.0-3_amd64.deb | grep > Priority > Priority: optional > adsb@coccia:~$ dpkg-deb -I > /srv/mirrors/debian/pool/main/b/binutils/binutils-i686-gnu_2.31.1-16_amd64.deb > | grep Priority > Priority: optional > > Regards, > > Adam > >