Bug#948575: About removing overrides with deprecated "extra" priority
Dear Maintainers, please find attached a simple Python script to parse an override .gz file [1] and create a text file containing only lines with 'extra' priority replaced by 'optional' one. Example of usage: python3 overrides.py --filein override.sid.main.gz --fileout override.sid.main If I understand correctly the code [2], this file needs to be passed to '|dak control-overrides -C file'| for changing the priority for specified packages. I'm not entirely sure about this procedure (I'm not sure at all, sincerely), if I'm wrong, my apologizes for the noise. I've tried :( Kind Regards [1] http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/ [2] https://salsa.debian.org/ftp-team/dak/-/blob/master/dak/control_overrides.py overrides.py.xz Description: application/xz
Bug#948575: About removing overrides with deprecated "extra" priority
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainers, Is there any block preventing removal of "extra" priority from overrides? e.g gnupg-utils extra utils "extra" priority is deprecated as per Debian Policy [1] extra This priority is deprecated. Use the optional priority instead. This priority should be treated as equivalent to optional. Please note that: a) some packages declare "optional" priority (e.g. gnupg-utils) but "extra" is given through overrides b) some others packages still declare "extra" priority (catched by lintian [2]) and I think this behavior should be overridden. There is a little disparity between overrides and lintian tag, but overrides take higher priority [3]. Packages involved: $ grep 'Priority: extra' Packages | wc -l 265 $ grep -P '\textra\t' override.sid.main | wc -l 265 Thanks for considering and kind regards. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities [2] https://lintian.debian.org/tags/priority-extra-is-replaced-by-priority-optional.html [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=929087
