Dear FTP Masters, I'd like to request your input on #776413. It is concerned with the priority of the ed package. There are two conflicting requests. Some users request ed to have priority "optional", other users request it to be "important". Please, take a look at the discussion in the mentioned bug report (and also in the related one, #416585).
Some time ago (see, #416585) the priority of the ed package has been changed to "optional", but ed is still a part of POSIX standard. For me personally the main issue here is the interpretation of "Unix-like" in the Debian Policy: "Important programs, including those which one would expect to find on any Unix-like system." With regards, Lev Lamberov
