Re: apt development
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:46:36PM +0100, David Förster wrote:
> Hi there,
Hi David,
sorry for the late reply.
> I have some questions about apt development in general. (I'm anoyed by some
> shortcommings regarding pinning and wondering if might be able to fix them
> myself.)
Feel free! AFAIK noone is currently working on pinning, so help is
very welcome here.
> - Is there any central place where information about apt development can be
> found? (roadmap, wiki, rcs)
I updated http://wiki.debian.org/AptDevelopment to be up-to-date
again. It does contain the available bzr branches that I know about,
if there are more, please add them!
The plan now that etch is released that the apt branch from
debian/experimental is updated and uploaded to unstable.
> - Are there any efforts to add more features to the pinning mechanism? (More
> selection criteria like "by source package", real wildcards for package
> names) If not, how difficult do you expect this to be?
See above, it shouldn't be too hard, but the apt codebase is not
always easy to work with. If you have specific questions, try to ask
here or on irc :)
Cheers,
Michael
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