[maemo-developers] Autobuilder repository priority ?

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Sunday 01 November 2009 07:46:55 you wrote:
> So, you propose to have one more queue, which would use only SDK? Or
> only Extras? or both? Sorry, your proposal is still unclear to me and
> I doubt it would be clear for other devs.

First we need to decide on whether Extras packages can update packages from 
the SDK/official repos. I'd say no. In that case, go the Debian way and have an 
sdk-updates and extras-updates queue with a different QA procedure. Ideally, 
these would function akin to the Debian security team (not sure we have the 
manpower for that, though - ideas how to solve this welcome). See

http://people.debian.org/~skx/security/team.html and
http://people.debian.org/~skx/security/dsa.html

In case of overlapping SDK/Extras I can't think of a satisfactory solution as 
then fixes for the latter would appear as fixes for the former, which is wrong 
and dangerous. Another issue would be that you would not be getting SDK 
updates if you have extras or extras-updates disabled, which is very 
counterintuitive.