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Re: Priority of buildd-unstable?



Hi,

Am Samstag, den 04.10.2014, 14:40 +0200 schrieb Kurt Roeckx:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 05:50:42PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > with buildd-unstable available, I can schedule Haskell binNMUs much
> > faster, which is good. But I'm starting to worry that the builds would
> > still use packages from unstable, even though there is a newer (but not
> > yet installable) version in buildd-unstable. It's hard to check
> > directly, because of the volatile nature of these repos... so here is my
> > question:
> > 
> > If a package pkg is available in both unstable and buildd-unstable, will
> > the builders consider installing the former?
> 
> apt will so both Packages files, so apt will do whatever apt
> normally does, and I think that's installing the latest version.
> 
> Why would you want to use the older version?

me: never (so I’m happy about your answer).

(I could imagine apt trying harder and use the old version if it can
fulfill an installation request that it could do otherwise, hence me
asking.)

Greetings,
Joachim

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