(In reply to Travis Crump)
Hello, and thanks for the feedback.
I think that the original is right. It speaks of the
priority assigned to an "instance" of a package (i.e.,
a particular version of that package coming from a
particular source). So although coreutils (the package)
is assigned three
Thomas Hood wrote:
If a target release has been specified, then APT uses the
following algorithm to set the priorities of the instances
of a package. Assign:
priority 100
to the instance of a package that is already
installed (if any)
Because this matter was mentioned in the 26 November Debian
Weekly News, it seems appropriate to post an update.
Susan Kleinmann took the bull by the horns and rewrote
the page from scratch. I have proposed some revisions
and hopefully we'll have a finished product soon. I
append the latest vers
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