In our custom apt repositories we have...
Reprepro doesn't know where they came from, or care. So... it would great to have a systematic system for recording where a given package came from, who built it, and how it was built.
when built from upstream source they should be in component universe. if we made them all ourselves they should be in component main. i think they should always be in gerrit unless there is a really good reason not to?
per https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reprepro
main
for Wikimedia native packages, as well as Debian/Ubuntu packages that have had source-modifications
universe
for existing Debian/Ubuntu packages that just have been recompiled/backported for the given distribution.
sometimes we have this mixed up for different versions of the same package,
example:
http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pool/main/a/adminbot/
vs.
http://apt.wikimedia.org/wikimedia/pool/universe/a/adminbot/
it would be nice to systematically check for this and merge them all into the proper component
agreed it would be nice, one way to do this would be to map the source package name with the expected component. Then we can audit what's in reprepro and upload packages in their expected component
This task is quite old and these days we've established the scheme of using separate components which allow mapping package/external sources to repository components. Marking as resolved.