On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 19:31 +1100, Brian May wrote: > On 21 October 2012 23:06, Sebastian Ramacher <sebast...@ramacher.at> wrote: > > On 2012-10-21 21:04:51, Brian May wrote: > >> Where is this git repository you are looking at? Will check again tomorrow. > > > > That's the one at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/heimdal/ > > Ok, I see it. > > 3c279602a4dd543cb44fc269241ca4da59f5da7b makes it optional > > 8647c84d416cf734b658515c6c8fad366a12fe16 removes the optional tags, I > think overall this is a NOP because the source is still priority: > Optional. > > d41f5a26e3facc929ff895e7cb41baa19875d4a4 makes it extra > > According to the git repository version 1.6~git20120403+dfsg1-3 has > not been released, but according to the version in Debian unstable, it > would appear it has been released. > > Will CC Jelmer Vernooij <jel...@debian.org>, maybe he can explain what > is going on here. I should've been a bit more verbose about this. IIRC this was just being consistent with the ftp-master overrides.
According to policy packages in extra are (among other things) "only likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have specialized requirements (such as packages containing only detached debugging symbols)". I could see the Heimdal Kerberos libraries being covered by that, but moving back to optional (and requesting ftp-master to change the overrides) also seems reasonable to me. Cheers, Jelmer
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