On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:41:54PM +0200, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> [100718 19:30]: > > Ideally, it would be nice to be able to sort out packages by priority and, > > from that, build, say, a CD set of only the important and higher packages > > and know that it's self-contained. In practice, I suspect that we have > > enough packages with problems here that you have to compute the dependency > > closure anyway, but insofar as priorities are useful for anything, I think > > that was the goal. > > Calculating a dependency closure is neither an easy nor an task with > a well-defined outcome. Starting with more data makes that both more > easy and more likely to come to deterministic results (with a good > enough starting set, most dependencies will most likely already be in > that set, so the likelyhood to encounter virtual packages or or-ed > dependencies (especially those were different packages have different > first choices) is much smaller. > > The difference between optional and extra is indeed mood today. But I > guess that is mostly because dh_make is making everything optional > instead of extra by default...
Uhm, I don't think that is the case; I, for one, have always adjusted
the priority of dh_make-generated packages to "optional" by hand :)
[r...@straylight ~]$ dpkg -L dh-make | perl -nle '-f and m{/control$} and
print' | sort | xargs fgrep Priority
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debianb/control:Priority: extra
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debiani/control:Priority: extra
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debiank/control:Priority: extra
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debianl/control:Priority: extra
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debianm/control:Priority: extra
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debiann/control:Priority: extra
/usr/share/debhelper/dh_make/debians/control:Priority: extra
[r...@straylight ~]$
G'luck,
Peter
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