Hi!
On Tue, 2025-09-09 at 13:00:20 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Daniel Baumann
> > as of trixie, the the priority field isn't required anymore. reprepro fails
> > to import such packages (e.g. pci.ids 0.0~2025.07.11-1):
Hmm, but this is supposed to be handled transparently, where dpkg-dev
tools will fill in the Priority so that any generated artifact still
contains one.
> I also hit that on apt.postgresql.org.
>
> A workaround is to update the .changes files, replacing "-" with
> "optional". (No change in the .deb or .dsc required.)
>
> sed -i -e 's/^\( [0-9a-f]\{32\} [0-9]\+ [a-z]\+\) - /\1 optional /'
> /srv/apt/$QUEUE/*.changes
>
> Unfortunately the `-P, --priority priority` switch advertised in the
> manpage doesn't work for processincoming.
>
> IMHO reprepro should just fill in "optional" on its own there.
>
> I haven't checked if it's a problem, but "Section" is also optional
> and might have the same issue.
Are these source packages from Debian forky/sid, being built with a dpkg
from Debian bookworm? (dpkg >= 1.22.13 in trixie/forky/sid should already
have the support to handle this transparently.)
Thanks,
Guillem
