[maemo-developers] Autobuilder repository priority ?

[From: Attila Csipa]

On Tuesday 03 November 2009 21:31:29 Attila Csipa wrote:
> Foreword: My particular problem is not that big of an issue, in the end I
> went for extras-devel compatibility, no big deal, it's not yet for end
> users anyway. It's the generic approach that is at question here - tomorrow
> someone else will fall through the same manhole and it might become a
> recurring issue.

And yes, I got oopsed by this again, but this time around it's worse (hence my 
unzmbification of this thread). My package was already in the testing 
quarantine when somebody else promoted a package depending on it. As a result, 
new versions of my dependencies from -devel got silently promoted to -testing, 
so when I promoted my package, unbeknowst to me, I was actually promoting the 
packages from -devel. But wait, the plot thickens ! As we only had overlapping 
dependencies with the other project, this means now I also have not only stuff 
from -devel in Extras, but actually a funky mix of versions, something nobody 
tested for. The worst part is I cannot make a quick fix as it would have to go 
(again) through the 10 day quarantine. Please, let's reconsider the 
promotion/repository logic as per the ancient thread this message belongs to. 
Thank you :)

Regards,
Attila