On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:47:03PM +0200, Alexander Gattin wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 03:04:00AM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:01:41AM +0200, Alexander Gattin wrote: > > > WRT to the patch you sent -- alternative way to achieve > > > the same effect would be to make "login" package > > > non-required on The Hurd, wouldn't it? > > Totally, but this is not technically possible right now in Debian > > (there are no arch-specific overrides in place yet). > > You mean "override" files, like e.g. dpkg-scanpackages > uses? Sorry for my misunderstanding...
No, this is an archive-specific thing. To better manage releases, the release manager and ftp-master can override the priorities of packages, like demoting something to 'optional' even though the maintainer thinks it should really be 'standard' for some reason. Such, every binary package has a hard-defined priority assigned. As those are the same for each architure due to current technical limitations, login is considered priority 'required' on hurd-i386 as well, and there is nothing we can do from the packaging side. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
