On Mon 2017-01-02 19:47:00 -0500, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > There was an open bug about changing the overrides (#849903) and I just > set all packages built from gpgme1.0 to "Priority: optional". > > I don't think there is any reason for the lib*-dev packages to be at > Priority: extra?
I read: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities as suggesting that -dev packages are generally more "extra-ish" than "optional", but then again, i think of workstations set up for software development as having "specialized requirements" compared with what most computers might reasonably want to install: >> optional >> >> (In a sense everything that isn't required is optional, but that's >> not what is meant here.) This is all the software that you might >> reasonably want to install if you didn't know what it was and don't >> have specialized requirements. This is a much larger system and >> includes the X Window System, a full TeX distribution, and many >> applications. Note that optional packages should not conflict with >> each other. >> >> extra >> >> This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, >> important, standard or optional priorities, or are 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 personally develop software, and i maintain many computers (for myself, even), and i definitely *don't* want most of my computers to include the -dev packages. I'm happy to go with whatever the ftp-master team prefers, though. :) --dkg
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