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authorColin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>2013-08-01 13:19:43 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2013-08-01 13:37:52 +0200
commit096bd9f59750f6bea754d3a05e240c9eea0f6b53 (patch)
treedf89bbb78f0484983fd0d0020a6e551a64d1a3c8 /apt-pkg/policy.h
parent55732492ddea83e7d97b2e0c3e6799948fc5f152 (diff)
prefer native arch over higher priority for providers
The rational from the buglog: > The problem here is that the Priority field in one of the Packages files > is incorrect due to a mishap with reprepro configuration, […] the > amd64 version is Priority: standard but the arm64 version is Priority: > optional (and has a stray "optional: interpreters" field). > […] > However, Priority is a rather weak property of a package because it's > typically applied via overrides, and it's easy for maintainers of > third-party repositories to misconfigure them so that overrides aren't > applied correctly. It shouldn't be ranked ahead of choosing packages > from the native architecture. In this case, I have no user-mode > emulation for arm64 set up, so choosing m4:arm64 simply won't work. This effectly makes the priority the least interesting data point in chosing a provider, which is in line with the other checks we have already order above priority in the past and also has a certain appeal by the soft irony it provides. Closes: #718482
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