Bug#758234: transitive dependencies

2014-11-15 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Charles Plessy: on my side I agree that self-contained priority levels are not needed anymore and are even becoming harmful. This said, there were objections to the removal of this rule in this thread and in #759260, and I do not remember if we had good answers to each of them.

Bug#758234: transitive dependencies

2014-11-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 09:09:06AM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: If I read #759260 correctly, Gerrit Pape p...@dbnbgs.smarden.org objected to allowing depending on lower-priority packages and said that the current file a bug and raise the priority process is just fine. However, IMHO it

Bug#769219: function moved

2014-11-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:10:30PM +0100, David Bremner wrote: Rob Browning r...@debian.org writes: Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: What to do for ascii : emacs24 --batch -Q -l ./README-css.el -l org -l org-ascii --visit Process.org --funcall org-export-as-ascii

Bug#769219: function moved

2014-11-15 Thread David Bremner
Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: E: debian-policy: privacy-breach-may-use-debian-package usr/share/doc/debian-policy/Process.html You may use libjs-mathjax package. (http://orgmode.org/mathjax/mathjax.js) Hmm. I don't have much experience with that js stuff. It might be possible to

Bug#769219: function moved

2014-11-15 Thread David Bremner
Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: E: debian-policy: privacy-breach-may-use-debian-package usr/share/doc/debian-policy/Process.html You may use libjs-mathjax package. (http://orgmode.org/mathjax/mathjax.js) OK, so this is all a bit silly to display π, but you can either diff --git

Re: Bug#758234: transitive dependencies

2014-11-15 Thread Simon McVittie
On 15/11/14 09:35, Santiago Vila wrote: If those are the real reasons, then let's drop the rule only for *libraries*, but not for every other package. I think libraries are merely the most visible and obvious example of something that is pulled in as an implementation detail of part of the

Bug#758234: transitive dependencies

2014-11-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 04:31:37PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: On 15/11/14 09:35, Santiago Vila wrote: If those are the real reasons, then let's drop the rule only for *libraries*, but not for every other package. I think libraries are merely the most visible and obvious example of

Bug#769219: function moved

2014-11-15 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:10:30PM +0100, David Bremner wrote: Rob Browning r...@debian.org writes: Bill Allombert ballo...@debian.org writes: What to do for ascii : emacs24 --batch -Q -l ./README-css.el -l org -l org-ascii --visit Process.org --funcall org-export-as-ascii