On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:39:08 +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote:

> Xavier,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:18, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bes...@free.fr> wrote:
> 
> > your package depends on "makedev" which is an "extra" packages.
> > That's a violation of Debian Policy 2.5:
> > "Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values (excluding 
> > build-time dependencies). In order to ensure this, the priorities of one or 
> > more packages may need to be adjusted."
> 
> Thanks for noticing this, I'll see how can I remove the dependency.
> 
> > Moreover, this makes "makedev" uninstallable and so blocks the sysv-rc 
> > conversion to dependency based boot.
> 
> I don't understand this. How on earth can camstream make makedev
> uninstallable by depending on it?
> 
Ignore the report, camstream depends on udev | makedev, which is just
fine.

Xavier, a mass bug filing such as this has to be discussed on -devel
first, you can't just go and file a pile of severity:serious bugs,
especially when 1) the bugs wouldn't be RC even if they were real, and
2) most of them aren't even bugs.

Cheers,
Julien



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