Bug#596097: Please let apt reduce the amount of spam we get
2010/9/14 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>:
> David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> writes:
>> [ insert my ButAutomaticUpgrades bla bla here]
>
> 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?
We had it in the thread already, the problem is for me mostly that
giving the archive this power is a big thing:
First of all, as already said, archives could "fight" against each other
as they do it now with epochs. On the other hand, changes of this
value in the release file are barley noticeable for a normal user but
could make a big difference as 101 will always be preferred over 100…
Beside, we have not many other "special case" values:
500 is the default anyway, 990 is the default release and an archive
can't know if it is a default release for a user or not and above 1000
isn't a good value for an archive ever…
> 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
Thats what Julian said and i referred to in my ps.
Its a good idea, but requires abi changes as he already said…
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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