Hello Bill Allombert, On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 01:16:33PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > The priority in practice are set by the override file, not by packages. > So we shoud first ask the FTP master whether they consider that the > priorities are defined by them or by the policy, and if they are willing > to change the override file to adjust.
I know from first-hand experience that ftp-masters generally have very little interest in playing with priorities. In my experience they fully rely on package maintainers asking the ftp-masters to adjust the overrides to comply with what the package states. I've asked multiple times for util-linux and we've come closer and closer each time I've asked but there are still disparities (which I haven't found the energy to care about asking yet another time) as can be seen on https://packages.qa.debian.org/u/util-linux.html Even if ftp-masters where really keen on actively managing the overrides file I wonder what purpose this would serve? As already mentioned previously in this bug backlog it would just be a waste of ftp-master time. Either way, I'm adding ftpmaster to CC now. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
