Reinhard Tartler [02/Mar 6:18am -05] wrote: > On 2026-03-02 04:52, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > >> I'm wondering for the longest time if overriding the section and priority >> "by default" is still useful. Maybe it would nowadays be better to stop >> overriding section/priority completely (and thus just using the values from >> the package control files). >> I imagine this would reduce the overrides by 99%, leaving only the few >> actual special cases. These would not need "after the fact fixes", as ISTM >> they would by definition be "after NEW processing". > > I find this a very interesting idea. What are the main challenges with > implementing this?
If overrides don't exist the package is NEW. That's the more important idea in dak, not actually overriding the maintainers' specifications of the section and priority. Though I think that having some oversight on moves between main, contrib and non-free and changes in priority us probably useful too. -- Sean Whitton
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