On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:30:04AM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote: > > This issue is long standing, see the list of bug reports for ftp.debian.org, > > there are several describing this. I don't understand why aren't they > > getting resolved. Perhaps the FTP admins would better prefer if people > > mailed them exact diffs against the override file? > > No, the changes are trivial in most cases. I can't talk for the others, > but I personally keep out of frozen: as uploads are the release manager's > territory, so are all other changes that affect frozen, including override > file changes. I don't feel I have the right to poke around there.
If you are one of the ftp.debian.org maintainers, I think you have. The override file is release-dependant and its contents depends on the actual dependencies, conflicts and priorities of packages in each distribution. I think self-consistency of package priorities in potato will never be achieved by changing priorities only in woody. Considering that modifying a priority does not involve to compile anything, the risk, if any, is really minimal, so it is now, before potato is made stable, when we have the opportunity to fix all the wrong priorities. As a side note, two days ago I downloaded all the standard or higher packages into a ZIP disk to test the "default potato install" at home. Well, I was completely unable to install half of the default system, because perl depends on a library which was still optional (libdb2). The meaning of this is that apparently "little" details like package priorities have also an impact on the overall quality of the distribution. For this reason I think it is important that we release potato with as few ftp.debian.org bugs as we can. Thanks. -- "88666fa738e17218b96babe1a77a0735" (a truly random sig)
