Re: versioning of Norberts backports on people.debian.org

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure why, even for lmodern, the version in /var/lib/dpkg/status
> has a pin value of 100, less than 500 for the one on people.debian.org.
> But why is 2007-7 listed as three different versions for tl-base-bin?
> And is that the reason for the update loop?

Sorry, no idea for the upgrade loop nor for the double listing of
tl-base-bin 2007-7 (or maybe, there is one listing for authenticated
pkgs and one for those that aren't?... just an idea).

The only thing I can tell you is that a pin value of 100 for
/var/lib/dpkg/status seems to be normal:

~ % apt-cache policy lmodern                                        flo@florent
lmodern:
  Installed: 1.00-3
  Candidate: 1.00-3
  Version table:
 *** 1.00-3 0
        500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org etch/main Packages
        500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
~ % apt-cache policy make                                           flo@florent
make:
  Installed: 3.81-2
  Candidate: 3.81-2
  Version table:
 *** 3.81-2 0
        500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org etch/main Packages
        500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 _Etch_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20070407-11:40] unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
~ %

-- 
Florent