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Re: Bug#657212: include extra sources in Sources



On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 08:58:51PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> The last idea was to use the Priority field for this as it is not really
> used for Sources right now (most source packages have Priority: source).
> The extra sources would have Priority: extra while the "regular" source
> packages would be Priority: optional.

I find that very crude. It would really be an implementation detail of how to
deal with the missing overrides than a way of marking
not-really-part-of-the-suite source packages.

> Note that we cannot guarantee anything about version numbers: a source
> introduced by Built-Using might be older or newer than the regular
> source package; or it might introduce packages that would otherwise not
> be in the given suite.

Yep. That's what concerns me from the wanna-build side. We really need a
reliable way to filter them out.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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