Bug#596097: Please let apt reduce the amount of spam we get
David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> writes:
> tag 596097 patch
> thanks
>
> 2010/9/9 Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>:
>> * David Kalnischkies [2010-09-09 15:25 +0200]:
>>> 2010/9/9 Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>:
>>> If we (or rather the backport.debian.org ftpmasters, I'm just trying to
>>> convince you to provide the apt feature that is a prerequisite for this)
>>
>> No need to convenience me (as long as you don't want to trick me into
>> writing the patch ;) )
>
>
> I am still not completely convinced that i will like this default behavior
> for backports, but thats not my cup of tea to decide and i can pin it
> differently anyway? i am a bit more surprised that nobody feels the
> urgent need to do the work as it was a relatively low-hanging fruit and
> faster to implement than reading the complete thread? especially
> as everybody likes it here and on d-release beside the nobody? anyway,
> here it is, a more or less untested (in terms of real world usage) patch
> for APT to pin sources with "ButAutomaticUpgrades" with 100.
> NotAutomatic needs to be present for compatibility anyway so the
> sense is not completely lost and a bit easier to understand then
> NotAutomaticButUpgrades -- but a better name can always be suggest
> (until it is too late of course), maybe someone wants to do at least this?
> Will be around for comment at least until 0.8.4 migration i guess?
Wouldn't it make more sense to have
DefaultPin: 100
Or do you want to invent a new tag for every pin value that might be
usefull for an archive to set?
In combination with this (or in place of this) the pin should also be
settable in sources.list:
deb [pin=100] http://backports.debian.org/debian squeeze main
MfG
Goswin
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