Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Joey Hess wrote: > > So will this mean that if your packages match the overrides file, the line > > in the overrides file will be removed? > > I'm not sure if they intended this to be done automatic.. Richard, > can you step in and comment here?
Heh, it was just an idea I was kicking around. I never worked out the details, and I haven't discussed it with the other archive maintainers. So there's no "they" :-) Joey's description is close to what I had in mind, except that the line wouldn't be removed, it would just get "-" in certain fields. That way, new packages are still added manually, but section and/or priority can be left to the package maintainers in most cases. (Stuff like the oldlibs section, or presence in "base", can then be handled with mass overrides.) Putting in those -'s automatically would only be useful for the hybrid system. Once the only overrides left are real overrides, I'd want them to stay overridden. Standardizing on dpkg -isp when building packages is going to be necessary to pull this off. Right now, all information of where a package wants to be is lost after it is installed. I'd like to see inclusion of the section and priority fields made the default in any case. Richard Braakman
