On Mi, 2010-09-08 at 18:31 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.8.3 > Severity: wishlist > > Hi, > > for backports.debian.org we use the NotAutomatic Flag to prevent users > from installing every backport. Unfortunatly that has the drawback of > preventing updates from installed backports. Even if our docs trys to > force users of pinning backports to 100 several don't read the docs or > don't understand it. > > It would be great if apt would support a Flag like: > NotAutomaticButUpdates or so which pins a remote repo to 100. If > needed I can provide a patch but my C++ isn't so fluid, so I would > prefer if I don't have to :). You could also see it as a chance to become a bit more fluid in C++.
> > For backward compability it would be nice NotAutomatic and > NotAutomaticButUpdates would both work. > > Also it would be great if we could get the change into Squeeze :). My opinion: It may break some applications making use of NotAutomatic flags if you suddenly add a third type of sources (0, NotAutomatic, NotAutomaticButUpdates). But the breakage is probably not that hard. I'd like to have per-source default pin priorities instead of yet another NotAutomatic flag, but that's too complicated and breaks the ABI. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
