Andreas, am Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 11:05:21PM +0100 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > can someone remember why we need to run keep-latest on the binary > packages files? According to wanna-build comments, that could be for > the reason that the buildd resolver can't cope with all but the latest > version, and will fail anyways if the latest version doesn't work for > us. AFAICS, this is however only true for direct dependencies, > indirect ones are auto-picked up by apt. > > If the above doesn't look too bad, I'd like to remove keep-latest on > the binary package files for the main archive (it's not used anyways > for the other archives). --- Day changed Wed Jul 29 2009 16:10 < nomeata> ok, small perl script "keep-latest" written to make sure no obsolete information is passed to wanna-build --merge-all in trigger.often, see last three commits on http://git.debian.org/?p=users/nomeata/wanna-build.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/edos-debcheck So the motivation was, I guess, to drop the old package in suite/Packages to use the one from suite-buildd/Packages instead. It's possible that merge-v3 already trims down the list of eligible sources by itself, like quinn-diff did, by only considering the newest one. Please look what the differences are in bd-uninstallable and merge results when doing that change. Thanks Philipp Kern
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