Re: essential and transitivly-essential

2012-02-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Bernhard R. Link brl...@debian.org writes: My proposal is still: - Add a new priority essential for the must always be available (so this is what in a bootstrap is unpackaged manually). Require that Priority essential packages only depend on Priority essential, so this is the new

essential and transitivly-essential

2012-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Steve Langasek vor...@debian.org [120131 20:53]: Well, I would argue that packages in the essential set shouldn't be adding new dependencies without some discussion and review on debian-devel first. That's not technically required by policy, but pulling new packages into the

Re: essential and transitivly-essential

2012-02-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:03:44AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: It's also a pity that it is not that easy to see which packages are in this set. Given that transitively-essential means: - the package must be unpackaged manually - it must work without any preinst or postinst script being

Re: essential and transitivly-essential

2012-02-01 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Colin Watson cjwat...@debian.org [120201 12:32]: On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:03:44AM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: It's also a pity that it is not that easy to see which packages are in this set. Given that transitively-essential means: - the package must be unpackaged manually - it