On 07/05/26 03:10, Mark Brown wrote:
It means that the priority field is basically noise, it does carry a little bit of meaning but not a meaning that you'd infer from the name and TBH something that could just be in the override file without any involvement from the packages.
I did indeed suggest to get rid of Priority and replace that concept with a series of meta-packages such as debian-required, debian-standard. The FTP team would maintain them and each meta-package would Recommends: the appropriate set of packages. debian-installer/debootstrap would still have a declarative/machine-readable way to select which packages to include in a standard installation.
Override files would however still be needed because the presence of (or lack of) a package in a suite's override file is how the FTP team signals dak and its related machinery that that package should be included in (or excluded from) that suite.
But this is all a story for another day and another bug report. Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci
