Re: Behavior Change/Bug: Agenda sorting of deadline items v > 4.73

[Eric J Haywiser <ejh1@MIT.EDU>]

> Hi Eric,
>
> sorting should be by priority.
> Please check your values of org-agenda-sorting-strategy,

In both examples it is set to

((agenda time-up category-keep priority-down)
(todo category-keep priority-down)
(tags category-keep))

> and take a look at the priorities of the different items in the agenda

and for the same org file,
which is the only org file used to construct the agenda I find:

Under 5.16a priorities

>> Thursday  31 January 2008
1100>> deadline-order-bug:In -730 d.:  Jan One DEADLINE: <2006-01-31 Thu>
1100>> deadline-order-bug:In -365 d.:  Jan Two DEADLINE: <2007-01-31 Thu>
1100>> deadline-order-bug:Deadline:   Jan Three DEADLINE: <2008-01-31 Thu>
1100>> deadline-order-bug:In -715 d.:  Feb One DEADLINE: <2006-02-15 Thu>
1100>> deadline-order-bug:In -350 d.:  Feb Two DEADLINE: <2007-02-15 Thu>
1009>> deadline-order-bug:In  15 d.:  Feb Three DEADLINE: <2008-02-15 Thu>
1009>> deadline-order-bug:In 366 d.:  Jan Four DEADLINE: <2009-01-31 Thu>
1006>> deadline-order-bug:In 381 d.:  Feb Four DEADLINE: <2009-02-15 Thu>

Under 4.67c priorites are

>> Thursday  31 January 2008
1740>> deadline-order-bug:In -730 d.:  Jan One DEADLINE: <2006-01-31 Thu>
1725>> deadline-order-bug:In -715 d.:  Feb One DEADLINE: <2006-02-15 Thu>
1375>> deadline-order-bug:In -365 d.:  Jan Two DEADLINE: <2007-01-31 Thu>
1360>> deadline-order-bug:In -350 d.:  Feb Two DEADLINE: <2007-02-15 Thu>
1100>> deadline-order-bug:Deadline:   Jan Three DEADLINE: <2008-01-31 Thu>
  995>> deadline-order-bug:In  15 d.:  Feb Three DEADLINE: <2008-02-15 Thu>
  644>> deadline-order-bug:In 366 d.:  Jan Four DEADLINE: <2009-01-31 Thu>
  629>> deadline-order-bug:In 381 d.:  Feb Four DEADLINE: <2009-02-15 Thu>

> does not show what is wrong, I need to search, so let me know what ou find,

So shouldn't the priorities be the same across versions for same org file and
org-agenda-sorting-strategy values?

Maybe someone else can duplicate this behavior with the org file that follows?

Thanks!

>> The following is the example org file to generate this behavior.
>> Also, You will need to (set-variable org-deadline-warning-days 1000)
>> to test this.
>> 
>> * Jan One DEADLINE: <2006-01-31 Thu>
>> * Jan Two DEADLINE: <2007-01-31 Thu>
>> * Jan Three DEADLINE: <2008-01-31 Thu>
>> * Jan Four DEADLINE: <2009-01-31 Thu>
>> 
>> * Feb Three DEADLINE: <2008-02-15 Thu>
>> * Feb One DEADLINE: <2006-02-15 Thu>
>> * Feb Two DEADLINE: <2007-02-15 Thu>
>> * Feb Four DEADLINE: <2009-02-15 Thu>