The Priority and Section field have nothing to do with
the archive layout since woody.
2007-09-30 Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>
+ * deb-control.5: Remove obsolete sentence regarding
+ the role of the Priority and Section field. They
+ have nothing to do with the archive layout since
+ woody.
+
* dpkg-source.1: Remove superfluous [options] from
-b command description.
and
.B Priority
fields have a defined set of accepted values based on the Policy Manual.
-They are used to decide how the packages are layed out in the archive.
A list of these values can be obtained from the latest version of the
.B debian-policy
package.