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Bug#437930: marked as done (The non-default release (eg, experimental) sould have a priority bigger than 100)

Your message dated Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:36:07 +0300
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has caused the Debian Bug report #437930,
regarding The non-default release (eg, experimental) sould have a priority bigger than 100
to be marked as done.

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--- Begin Message --- Package: apt
Version: 0.7.6
Severity: important

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I have unstable and experimental enabled in sources.list, and on /etc/apt/apt.conf I have the line APT::Default-Release "unstable";

As you see bellow, experimental is given a priority of 1, and I think it is against common sense.

If I *consciously* install a package from experimental, I would like to *be aware of, and upgrade to, all the updates that come into experimental* before the package comes into unstable. When the package comes into unstable, apt will forget about the experimental version of the package.

By the way, the experimental release of debian-multimedia.org  is given a priority of 500 and I find it OK. What I do not understand is the priority 1 for the experimental release of the official Debian packages.

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-686

Debian Release: lenny/sid
990 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
990 unstable ftp.uk.debian.org
500 stable dl.google.com
500 experimental www.debian-multimedia.org
1 experimental ftp.uk.debian.org

--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
==============================================-+-====================
libc6 (>= 2.6-1) | 2.6.1-1
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516) | 1:4.2.1-3
libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516) | 4.2.1-3
debian-archive-keyring | 2007.07.31


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>If I *consciously* install a package from experimental, I would like to *be
>aware of, and upgrade to, all the updates that come into experimental*
>before the package comes into unstable. When the package comes into
>unstable, apt will forget about the experimental version of the package.

Apt won't forget about this package. It will show new candidate from
experimental if you call 'apt-cache show'. Last apt-show-versions package will
consider update to experimental package. Debian unstable also has 'daptup'
utility which will help you track package updates (and from experimental) better.

>By the way, the experimental release of debian-multimedia.org  is given a
>priority of 500 and I find it OK. What I do not understand is the priority 1
>for the experimental release of the official Debian packages.
Experimental is experimental. Every new update from experimental can break the
whole system - thus upgrade to any experimental version of package (and from
previous experimental version too) cannot be considered automatic.

I'm closing this bug. Reopen if you objects.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF

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