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severity 731835 serious
reassign 731835 ftp.debian.org
thanks
Justification: section 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."
Either libgmerlin-avdec1 should be assigned priority "optional", or
its reverse dependencies should be priority "extra".
for the sake of completeness/consistency, i'd also like to ask you to
reassign the priority to "optional" for the other binary packages
built from 'gmerlin-avdecoder' (with the exception of
libgmerlin-avdec-dbg), namely:
libgmerlin-avdec1
libgmerlin-avdec-dev
libgmerlin-avdec-doc
gmerlin-plugins-avdecoder
cheers
On 2013-12-10 11:35, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Package: libgmerlin-avdec1 Version: 1.2.0~dfsg-3+b1 Severity:
> minor
>
> Dear Maintainer, I noticed that this package has a priority
> "extra".
>
> according to debian policy, i don't see a reason to not have
> priority "optional", since the package does not have any
> "specialized requirements" such as mentioned in §2.5 of the Debian
> policy.
>
> the problem i'm experiencing is, that some packages of priority
> "optional" depend on this package, which is a direct violation of
> §2.5 ("Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority
> values"). so either these packages or your package ought to have
> fixed priorities, and i think it that this package would be the
> better place
>
> quoting from #debian-mentors:
>
> 10:27 < zmoelnig> i'm wondering about the "priorities" field: which
> priority should i use as default for "most" packages? "extra" or
> "optional"? [...] 10:30 < wRAR> zmoelnig: optional [...] 10:31 <
> wRAR> there is #660249 10:31 < wRAR> the only example in the text
> (debug symbols) hints (at least for me) that this is not really
> about specialized software, but about non-software packages. 10:32
> < wRAR> other widely used example is transitional packages [...]
> 10:34 < wRAR> at this point someone usually remembers that
> distinctions between optional and extra do not have a real meaning
> and that priorities should be abolished.
>
>
> -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers
> unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500,
> 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale:
> LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh
> linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages libgmerlin-avdec1 depends on: ii liba52-0.7.4
> 0.7.4-16 ii libavcodec54 6:9.10-1 ii libavformat54
> 6:9.10-1 ii libc6 2.17-96 ii libcdio13
> 0.83-4 ii libdca0 0.0.5-6 ii libdvdread4
> 4.2.0+20130219-2 ii libfaad2 2.7-8 ii libflac8
> 1.3.0-2 ii libgavl1 1.4.0-1 ii libgsm1
> 1.0.13-4 ii libmad0 0.15.1b-8 ii
> libmjpegutils-2.0-0 1:2.1.0+debian-1 ii libmpeg2-4
> 0.5.1-5 ii libogg0 1.3.1-1 ii libopenjpeg2
> 1.3+dfsg-4.6 ii libpng12-0 1.2.49-5 ii libpostproc52
> 6:0.git20120821-4 ii libschroedinger-1.0-0 1.0.11-2 ii
> libsmbclient 2:4.0.11+dfsg-1 ii libspeex1
> 1.2~rc1.1-1 ii libswscale2 6:9.10-1 ii libtheora0
> 1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1 ii libtiff4 3.9.7-2 ii libvdpau1
> 0.7-1 ii libvorbis0a 1.3.2-1.3 ii libvorbisenc2
> 1.3.2-1.3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1 ii libxext6
> 2:1.3.2-1 ii multiarch-support 2.17-96 ii zlib1g
> 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
>
> libgmerlin-avdec1 recommends no packages.
>
> libgmerlin-avdec1 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
>
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