[maemo-developers] Autobuilder repository priority ?

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 23:35:08 you wrote:
> > Ubuntu and Debian solve this problem by advising different repository
> > priorities. Stable has a highest priority, Testing is lower and Unstable
> > is lowest. If there is a package in Stable that satisfies my requirement,
> > that's the one that should be used.
>
> Are you sure it works this way? I thought that packages are built with
> dependencies from unstable in Debian, just like they're built against
> extras-devel in Maemo.

You're right you can't change pinning on the *builder* within the *same* 
queue, that would make no sense. The problem is that the autobuilder already 
uses a mix of repositories (as you said later, having packages from extras-* 
overriding SDK stuff is not right) and that we can't skip the promotion process 
(i.e. no security.debian.org that is handled differently). If I was unclear as 
to the goal - I don't want to cross-reference repo contents (bad, bad idea). I 
want to be able to issue updates to packages that have been already promoted 
and got to the general public (obviously not typo fixes but stuff that is REALLY 
important), and for that, we need a queue that has a different repository 
layout (i.e. no extras-devel overriding extras).

> Actually python-dbus is not very good example. It's not only SDK
> package. I might be wrong but I think it's included into PyMaemo
> releases and is delivered through Extras. Nokia included it into SDK,
> but this is a special case.

I just ran into this problem personally with python-dbus, hence the mention, 
but I did say the problem is more generic than that :)


Regards,
Attila