On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 05:23:01PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > That means that testing-security does not work, as testing-security is > not testing and apt will complain. > > Ubuntu would use: > > Codename: bullseye > Suite: bullseye-security > > but that would not help you either for a= pins, only for n pins (or ones > without an a= or n=). I also find it super annoying as bullseye pins now > apply to bullseye-security, and I can't pin bullseye release. It also breaks > testing-security as a name. > > That said, we might want a way to specify more aliases. Having two names > for a distribution is severily limiting, especially if we want to allow > people to specify versions instead. > > Maybe we should have more Release file fields (Codename-Alias, Suite-Alias, > Alias)?
Maybe we should have a Pocket field, and then you'd have Codename: bullseye Suite: testing Pocket: security and you could pin a=testing, p=security. -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
