On 2013-05-09 18:43, David Kalnischkies wrote: > In general, I wonder a bit why we are not just +2 all priority scores and > have therefore always positive (unsigned) numbers.
I tried this when I looked into this priority issue ... I think I even added 3 s.t. there would be no (interesting) packages with a score of 0 that would not be dumped. I quickly discared that approach ... I don't remember exactly why, but it was not helpful for debugging. Probably because it was not preserving the relative priority ordering of the packages at all. And I only looked at this for exactly one upgrade path. Perhaps a global rescoring would have made things different (and better) globally. Anyway, we still could test new scores and how they influence the squeeze2wheezy updates ... In the end I added some methods to manipulate the scores that do a "lazy initialization to 0" after initializing all scores to some magic (-9999), s.t. I could get a dump of all scores *including 0* that were updated during the computation. Having these missing is nasty for debugging. (There is alaready a bug filed about this.) Would you be interested in this patch? (In its current form it's a hack and proof-of-concept that I wouldn't propose for direct inclusion). Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
