Debian unstable Pin-Priority too high in Installation documentation

Debian unstable Pin-Priority too high in Installation documentation

[Laszlo KERTESZ]

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Hi,
On the Wireguard site the Debian installation Pin-Priority is at 150 - this
is too high because the official Backports (Stretch-Backports currently)
has a default of 100. This makes certain packages such as kernel images to
be pointed to Unstable instead of Backports.
I believe a number such as 90 should be better choice.

For example for the package linux-image-amd64 we have:

# apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64
linux-image-amd64:
  Installed: 4.18+98~bpo9+1
  Candidate: 4.18+99
  Version table:
     4.18+99 150
        150 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 4.18+98~bpo9+1 100
        100 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.9+80+deb9u6 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main
amd64 Packages

But if we lower the Pin Priority to 90:

# apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64
linux-image-amd64:
  Installed: 4.18+98~bpo9+1
  Candidate: 4.18+98~bpo9+1
  Version table:
     4.18+99 90
         90 http://deb.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
 *** 4.18+98~bpo9+1 100
        100 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64
Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.9+80+deb9u6 500
        500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main
amd64 Packages

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Re: Debian unstable Pin-Priority too high in Installation documentation

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Hi Laszlo,

Thanks for pointing this out. Presumably this is a suggestion for the
pin priority listed on the install page of the webpage? Or some place
else? I've CC'd dkg on this email to ack the change.

Jason
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Re: Debian unstable Pin-Priority too high in Installation documentation

[Laszlo KERTESZ]

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Hi,
Yes, it is for the webpage's install section.

On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 5:55 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> wrote:

> Hi Laszlo,
>
> Thanks for pointing this out. Presumably this is a suggestion for the
> pin priority listed on the install page of the webpage? Or some place
> else? I've CC'd dkg on this email to ack the change.
>
> Jason
>

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Re: Debian unstable Pin-Priority too high in Installation documentation

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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On Sun 2018-11-11 04:56:28 +0200, Laszlo KERTESZ wrote:
> On the Wireguard site the Debian installation Pin-Priority is at 150 - this
> is too high because the official Backports (Stretch-Backports currently)
> has a default of 100. This makes certain packages such as kernel images to
> be pointed to Unstable instead of Backports.
> I believe a number such as 90 should be better choice.

I agree with Laszlo that 90 would be a better choice for pinning
unstable.

thanks for the fix, Laszlo!

       --dkg

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Re: Debian unstable Pin-Priority too high in Installation documentation

[Jason A. Donenfeld]

Cool, thanks guys. Website updated.

Jason
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