Re: Replacing isc-dhcp-client with dhcpcd-base (Was: ifupdown maintenance)

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

I haven't been following the rest of this discussion, but one small
point since this is a common source of confusion:

On Sat, Sep 14, 2024 at 02:30:08PM +0200, Daniel Gröber wrote:
> Lastly I don't quite understand how the ftp-master priority override
> mechanism plays into this and indeed why we're using it over just uploading
> new revisions with the changes?

dak's architecture is that every package in the archive has overrides
setting its priority and section; an upload that doesn't match existing
overrides goes to NEW.  In many (most?) cases those will be equal to the
values in the packages themselves, but those values are nevertheless
overridden.  This means that uploading a new version of a package to
attempt to change its priority or section has no effect; if you need to
change those, you _must_ get ftpmaster to change the override, and
otherwise it just won't work.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson@debian.org]