On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:17:52PM +0100, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Matthew Palmer (mpalmer@debian.org) [050312 05:25]: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:14:35PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > The queue ordering is entirely automatic, and AIUI the queue(s) is (are) > > > sorted by: > > > > > > - target suite > > > - package priority > > > - package section > > > - package name > > > > > > I personally believe it would be beneficial to prioritize by upload urgency > > > as well (probably as a sort criterion between package priority and package > > > section), but the w-b maintainers disagree. > > > I'm trying to work out why package *section* matters at all. Package name > > is a bit odd, too, but including the section in there is just totally whack. > > Because we want packages in base to be preferred, as well as packages in > libs. I think I slightly misunderstood the "ordering by section" bit -- I was assuming an alphabetical ordering by section. So once base and libs have had their priority building, what's the ordering after that? Alphabetical by section, or does it go straight into a alphabetical by package name? - Matt
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