"Joona Kiiski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just found out that piuparts (priority optional) depends on > debootstrap (priority extra) This is against debian policy (section > 2.5), so I reported bug #477634 with severity serious. > > However, soon the severity was lowered to minor by maintainer with a > comment: "priority optional and priority extra should probably be > merged in this regard". Minor severity in BTS in my experience often > means "not going to fix this soon or maybe ever".
Priority inversion, while a Policy violation, is not considered an RC bug. ftpmaster can fix this globally before the release if desired; the package priorities in their control files are only a hint. > I'm not a DD/DM (and maybe never will be) and not in a position to > advise any of you, but I just want you to consider the fact that if you > allow optional packages freely depend on extra packages, it is possible > that you'll end up in situation where optional packages conflict with > each other (which under Morphy's law will have disastrous effects in > dist-upgrade). I think these are unrelated. We get optional packages that conflict on each other all the time even without priority inversion. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
