[Piuparts-devel] setting priority of sections

[Dave Steele]

On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> On 2011-11-26 19:52, Dave Steele wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Holger Levsen <holger at layer-acht.org> wrote:
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> On Samstag, 26. November 2011, Dave Steele wrote:
>>>> Here is a candidate patch that does this, if you replace the word
>>>> 'section' with 'state'.
>>>
>>> while I applaud your patch in principle, I dont like this. I really would like
>>> to be able to absolutly prioritize main over non-free no matter how well non-
>>> free is tested. And then, main over bpo over contrib over non-free... :)
>
> I have a first implementation of my prioritizing idea in branch
>  feature/slave/precedence
>

After inspecting the diff, it looks like
anbe42/feature/slave/precedence and davesteele/feature/flexible-retest
merge pretty cleanly, if there is interest in support for both. The
result would operate as Holger described.

Dave