Re: Anybody know why aptitude is not installed by default in Sid?

[Javi Barroso <javibarroso@gmail.com>]

Hi,

El 31 de octubre de 2015 21:34:51 CET, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> escribió:
>On Sat 31 Oct 2015 at 21:12:42 +0100, Javi Barroso wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> El 31 de octubre de 2015 20:17:41 CET, Teemu Likonen
><tlikonen@iki.fi> escribió:
>> >Brian [2015-10-31 18:49:59Z] wrote:
>> >
>> >> Here are two verifiable facts:
>> >>
>> >>   brian@sid:~$ dpkg --status aptitude | grep Priority
>> >>   Priority: important
>> >
>> >Package's priority can be overruled by... some system unknown to me.
>> >This is Debian 8:
>> >
>> >    $ dpkg --status aptitude | grep Priority
>> >    Priority: important
>> >
>> >    $ apt-cache show aptitude | grep Priority
>> >    Priority: standard
>> 
>> You can see when priority was overruled
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758561#12
>
>This is a very good pointer. It doesn't explain why two different tools
>give different answers but it does get to the heart of the matter.

I guess override action are done by ftp-masters when maintainer has not time or interest changing some parameters

See, for more información wiki page:
https://wiki.debian.org/FtpMaster/Override

Regards