#1137363 method to limit pulls to "if the source is already present"

Package:
reprepro
Source:
reprepro
Description:
Debian package repository producer
Submitter:
Simon Richter
Date:
2026-05-23 00:29:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1137363#5
Date:
2026-05-23 00:26:34 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

I have a port repository that follows a stable release and its
associated proposed-updates and security releases.

Debian often copies from security to proposed-updates, and from
proposed-updates to stable, and I'd like my local binaries to follow.

Currently, I use a stupid hack that for packages that are listed in
build-needing, I use "reprepro copysrc" with an exact version number to
copy them over. It would be nice to have a way to specify that binary
packages should be pulled, but only if the matching version of source
package is already in the target distribution.

   Simon