Re: Strange package priorities

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de> writes:

> The official Debian archive uses an 'Overrides' file that may change the 
> priority which is specified in the source package.
>
> As far as I know, the amd64 archives on alioth do not use the 
> 'Overrides' file and therefore use the unchanged priorities from the
> source packages. 
>
> Anyway, I think that bug reports should be filed to the BTS 
> for packages which specify wrong priorities in the sources.
>
> Regards
> Andreas Jochens

Correct.

We have the ability to use overrides. If anything breaks due to the
wrong priorities I can install override files on alioth and test the
feature. I'm not sure how well it works though so I would only do it
if needed.

MfG
        Goswin