Control: block -1 by 1052119 Hi Lee,
On Tue, 13 May 2025 12:07:32 +0200 Lee Garrett <[email protected]> wrote:
While I believe it's a bug in python3-apt or ansible-core, I think we should be more cautious about setting the pin priority, as this might also affect other software doing similar tests. AFAICS this pinning shouldn't be needed, as the package being tested should always have a higher version number than the one in the apt archive. So my questions are: Is this really needed? And if yes, could we instead do a narrower apt pinning at runtime to the specific packages in question?
Over the years, we've tried multiple things to improve how we're ensuring that the right packages are tested. We have ideas how to further improve things, but it's extremely hard to do, because there are so many things to consider. See e.g. bug #1052119 as an example where we had to revert an improvement related to pinning, because it didn't play nicely (yet).
Paul
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