Bug#697577: apt: default pkgProblemResolver::Scores prioritise Priority: important over Priority: required

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:18:01PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.8.10.3
> Severity: important

Thanks for your bugreport.

> A note on the version information for this bug: it is present in both
> wheezy and squeeze and probably earlier.
> 
> The default pkgProblemResolver::Scores::Important is greater than
> pkgProblemResolver::Scores::Required. According to my reading of the
> Debian policy document, Priority: required should be higher than
> Priority: important:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Priority
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities
[..]
 
Indeed, thanks a bunch. It looks like this is a ancient problem. I
commited a fix to the debian-sid branch now and a cleaner one to the
experimental branch. Unfortunately the enum
pkgCache::State::VerPriority needs to change for the cleaner
version and this breaks both ABI and the cache layout.

Cheers,
 Michael