On Sat, Nov 07, 2015 at 09:37:28AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: >Hi, > >trying to get in contact with Steve McIntyre about >Debian bug #800130, libjte1:
Hey Thomas, Apologies for not responding earlier - swamped with other stuff like running a Debian mini-conf in Cambridge. Just catching up on email now... :-/ >A few weeks ago i made packages of xorriso-1.4.0 et.al. >which are now in Debian testing, thanks to Dominique >Dumont. > >QA complains about libisofs6 having Priority "optional" but >depending on libjte1 with Priority "extra": > https://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=unstable&package=libisofs > >I wrote to Steve in septemnber and a few days later filed >the bug. >A new release of libisofs is planned to happen before the >end of the year. > >My favorite solution would be to set libjte1 to "optional", too. >I cannot see hard reasons in the policy description which >would prevent this. libjte1 is for an exotic use case. But >libisofs6 has a popcon rank around 1000. > >Less favorable would be to remove the dependency on libjte1 >and to tell all Jigdo producers to use GNU xorriso or to >modify the Debian source packages of libisofs, libisoburn, >and xorriso. > >Quite unfavorable would be to set libisofs, libisoburn, and >xorriso to "extra". libisofs is a dependency of xfburn which >has priority "optional". ACK. I'll sort out a dependency change for libjte* shortly. It may take a few days to happen, as the priorities of packages are *actually* set via ftpmaster overrides. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant, now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross
