On 10996 March 1977, Alexander Wirt wrote: >> Couldn't the "package is in testing" criterion also be enforced >> technically? There were some uploads of sid packages which happened by >> mistake AFAIR. In the rare cases of security updates, manual >> intervention would be needed, though. > Unfortunatly not, this would disqualifiy all exceptions. At least I don't > know how this would be possible with DAK. Maybe ganneff has an idea? I could import the version information from Debian into a (non-user-visible) suite on backports, and then say "foo-backports has to be older than bar". As our version policy is that of "get smaller than the one you backport from" that should work for this part. But manual overrides of that would be - uh. Ugly. I had to do that two or three times during amd64.debian.net very active times, its not nice. Basically you disable all such version checks, get the package completly in, re-enable them. Of course you disable all cron jobs during that time so nothing gets in that you dont want to, etc. Or One could probably have a little script, to be run by ftpmasters of bpo, that modifies the version info in the database for a given package and version. That would mean an upload window until the next import of data From .debian.org runs, which should be enough, if not it would need to ask a ftpmaster again. Thats just a quick thought on this, am offline right now and cant look for stuff, maybe I miss stuff. -- bye Joerg If the autobuilder tells me that my package failed to build from source, it's probably doing that on some obscure architecture I don't have access to.
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