Control: retitle -1 override: downgrade priority of all libraries to optional
On Sun, 04 Dec 2016 20:52:14 +0100 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > > Hi, > > please demote the priority of libudev1 from important to optional. > > Having library packages being pulled in as a result of their priority is > actively harmful. See #845464 as a current example. > > The priority of libudev1 was taken over from the original udev source > package, but I'm convinced we should fix that. > > #758234 has some more background. This bug is pending, and the appropriate change has been committed[1]. I think the priorities of all libraries should be downgraded to optional % grep-dctrl -n -sPackage -FPriority required \ -a -FSection 'libs' \ /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages libacl1 libattr1 e2fslibs libcomerr2 libss2 gcc-5-base gcc-6-base gcc-7-base libgcc1 libc-bin libc6 multiarch-support libselinux1 libsepol1 libtinfo5 libpam0g libpcre3 libblkid1 libfdisk1 libmount1 libsmartcols1 libuuid1 liblzma5 zlib1g % grep-dctrl -n -sPackage -FPriority important \ -a -FSection 'libs' \ /var/lib/apt/lists/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libbz2-1.0 libstdc++6 libgdbm3 libkmod2 libestr0 liblogging-stdlog0 libpipeline1 libncursesw5 libnewt0.52 libssl1.1 libssl1.0.2 libpopt0 libprocps6 libreadline7 libreadline6 libslang2 libudev1 libxapian30 It wold be nice to finally get gcc-5 out of minbase :) [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=4b3e61ac3fa06d8b82433e09a76f42a4f8859306
