Re: autopkgtesting of backports

[Pirate Praveen <praveen@onenetbeyond.org>]

2021, ഡിസംബർ 16 9:08:11 PM IST, Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de>ൽ എഴുതി
>On Thu, 16 Dec 2021, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
>
>> Not with the default apt configuration. You would `-t
>> bullseye-backports` to allow packages from backports to be installed as
>> dependencies, or to install an suitable pinning file raising the
>> priority of bullseye-backports. However in this case we would want to
>> raise the priority only of the packages you really need, not of the
>> entire backports repository.
>
>Huh, but how would you know for which ones you need it?
>Dependencies of dependencies, some of which may need backported
>versions, some not, and in any case you’d probably want to test
>at least “as much as possible from backports” and “only as much
>as needed to fulfil the dependencies from backports”…

I think there should be an easy option in how aspcud or aptitude resolves build dependencies (choose backports version only if version specified in control can be matched only via backports version)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=964916

For gitlab, I ship a pin preferences file.

>bye,
>//mirabilos

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