Am 23.10.2014 um 01:56 schrieb Adam Borowski: > This policy requirement is only historic. It made sense when the tools > couldn't cope with this situation, which was the case more than a decade > ago. These days, it is actively harmful: it makes debootstrap install junk > if I exclude systemd (as its dependencies have an elevated priority), > greatly increases the work when trying to reduce the size of standard (as in > a recent thread on debian-devel), etc. > > Thus, I say that it needs to be revisited once people are not busy with the > freeze. I'll raise this issue with the policy team, suggesting changing the > "must" requirement all the way to "must not": a package must not elevate its > priority just because it's depended on unless it has extra functionality > that itself warrants a given priority. > > For now, let's not change packages back and forth. Let's close this > non-issue in rsyslog, it's a problem with the policy. >
Well, this is exactly my point. Imho it's actively harmful to raise the priority of libraries and helper packages. Those packages should never be installed due to their priority. Libraries and helper packages should be installed because other packages depend on it. I'll support such a policy change and that's the reason I wanted clarification from the policy maintainers on this. Related to that is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758234 which Ansgar filed as a result of this. It's unfortunate that Gerrit objected to this proposed change and derailed the discussion. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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