Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:04:54AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : Huh? There's no such problem if optional packages conflict. The primary point in the past of not depending on extra packages from optional packages was so that the CDs would be ordered, so that packages on CD #2 wouldn't

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a comment on section 2.5 of the Policy: For optional, it says: optional packages should not conflict with each other. However, for extra, it says: This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, important,

Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Joona Kiiski
Hi! I just found out that piuparts (priority optional) depends on debootstrap (priority extra) This is against debian policy (section 2.5), so I reported bug #477634 with severity serious. However, soon the severity was lowered to minor by maintainer with a comment: priority optional and

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Joona Kiiski wrote: However, soon the severity was lowered to minor by maintainer with a comment: priority optional and priority extra should probably be merged in this regard. Minor severity in BTS in my experience often means not going to fix this soon or maybe ever. Or

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
Joona Kiiski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just found out that piuparts (priority optional) depends on debootstrap (priority extra) This is against debian policy (section 2.5), so I reported bug #477634 with severity serious. However, soon the severity was lowered to minor by maintainer with a

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
Joona Kiiski wrote: Hi! I just found out that piuparts (priority optional) depends on debootstrap (priority extra) I was bored the other day and created a script that checks for this. a dd-list of them is available at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority.dd-list, and the explanations at

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote: I was bored the other day and created a script that checks for this. a dd-list of them is available at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority.dd-list, and the explanations at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority You mean like

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
Peter Palfrader wrote: On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote: I was bored the other day and created a script that checks for this. a dd-list of them is available at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority.dd-list, and the explanations at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority You mean like