Bug#596097: Please let apt reduce the amount of spam we get (was: Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-14 Thread David Kalnischkies
tag 596097 patch thanks 2010/9/9 Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org: * David Kalnischkies [2010-09-09 15:25 +0200]: 2010/9/9 Carsten Hey cars...@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

Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
package apt merge 596097 186767 thanks 2010/9/8 Alexander Wirt formo...@debian.org: for backports.debian.org we use the NotAutomatic Flag to prevent users from installing every backport. Unfortunatly that has the drawback of preventing updates from installed backports. Even if our docs trys to

Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-09 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Julian Andres Klode j...@debian.org [2010-09-08 18:58:05 CEST]: On Mi, 2010-09-08 at 18:31 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: It would be great if apt would support a Flag like: NotAutomaticButUpdates or so which pins a remote repo to 100. If needed I can provide a patch but my C++

Bug#596097: Please let apt reduce the amount of spam we get (was: Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2010-09-09 10:42 +0200]: 2010/9/8 Alexander Wirt formo...@debian.org: for backports.debian.org we use the NotAutomatic Flag to prevent users from installing every backport. Unfortunatly that has the drawback of preventing updates from installed backports. Even if our

Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* Julian Andres Klode [2010-09-08 18:58 +0200]: My opinion: It may break some applications making use of NotAutomatic flags if you suddenly add a third type of sources (0, NotAutomatic, NotAutomaticButUpdates). But the breakage is probably not that hard. I don't see how this could break

Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-09 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Do, 2010-09-09 at 10:42 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: package apt merge 596097 186767 thanks 2010/9/8 Alexander Wirt formo...@debian.org: for backports.debian.org we use the NotAutomatic Flag to prevent users from installing every backport. Unfortunatly that has the drawback of

Bug#596097: Please let apt reduce the amount of spam we get (was: Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
2010/9/9 Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org: * David Kalnischkies [2010-09-09 10:42 +0200]: 2010/9/8 Alexander Wirt formo...@debian.org: Beside that you will shock each lenny to squeeze changer which doesn't read the news… or does make an upgrade with apt/lenny which doesn't understand the new

Bug#596097: Please let apt reduce the amount of spam we get (was: Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-09 Thread Carsten Hey
* David Kalnischkies [2010-09-09 15:25 +0200]: 2010/9/9 Carsten Hey cars...@debian.org: .. NotAutomatic could still be set and overruled by the new flag, even if it feels a bit ugly to do so… Indeed, that seems to be a good solution for this. Five years ago, when I mentioned DefaultPriority

Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-08 Thread Alexander Wirt
Package: apt Version: 0.8.3 Severity: wishlist Hi, for backports.debian.org we use the NotAutomatic Flag to prevent users from installing every backport. Unfortunatly that has the drawback of preventing updates from installed backports. Even if our docs trys to force users of pinning backports

Bug#596097: apt: Please support setting a pin of 100 from within an archive (NotAutomaticButUpdates)

2010-09-08 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Mi, 2010-09-08 at 18:31 +0200, Alexander Wirt wrote: Package: apt Version: 0.8.3 Severity: wishlist Hi, for backports.debian.org we use the NotAutomatic Flag to prevent users from installing every backport. Unfortunatly that has the drawback of preventing updates from installed