Setting NotAutomatic for hirsute+1-proposed

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 08:32:53AM -0500, Dan Streetman wrote:
> Just to clarify, people won't need to manually specify all
> dependencies, right? For example, if testing the 'systemd' package
> from -proposed, simply doing 'apt install systemd/jammy-proposed'
> would install the proposed version of systemd *and also* the proposed
> version of libsystemd0?

That's how it behaves in my tests, yes - if a dependency imposes a
version constraint requiring a lower-priority version, then apt tries to
satisfy it.

> Also, is this really needed? Is it really so hard for people to just do:
> 
> $ sudo add-apt-repository -p proposed
> 
> ...install proposed package(s) normally and do tests...
> 
> $ sudo add-apt-repository -r -p proposed

This has been an issue on and off for at least a decade, so my
impression is that we have solid empirical evidence that this is indeed
too hard for many testers in practice.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]