Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> writes: > * Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org>, 2016-04-10, 14:22: >>When I look into the "overrides" file for debian stretch: >> >>http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/override.stretch.main.gz >> >> I find there more than 48.000 overrides; which means that almost >> *all* packages are overridden. > > Exactly _all_ binary packages are in the override file.
Yes, but why? > That doesn't mean that that every single package had their priority or > section actually changed. But I repeatedly experienced that when I change the priority in the package, it is not changed in the archive. liberfa1 is an example here. Probably the most common case is like this one: the priority in the package changed, but the overrides file keeps it at the old value, so they actually differ. What is the use of this? Why can't I change the Priority of my packages on my own? This seems to make a change extra->optional unnecessarily complicated, and involves the always-overloaded ftp-master in a process where I don't see a policy risk. Best regards Ole
