Le Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:04:54AM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : > > Huh? There's no such problem if optional packages conflict. The > primary point in the past of not depending on extra packages from > optional packages was so that the CDs would be ordered, so that > packages on CD #2 wouldn't depend on packages on CD #4. AFAIUI, the > modern cd creation utilities already handle this correctly and pretty > much ignore optional/extra priority.
Le Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:26:38AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > 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. Hi Don, Russ, and all, Apparently this is a long standing issue: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196367 Just a comment on section 2.5 of the Policy: For optional, it says: optional packages should not conflict with each other. However, for extra, it says: This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, important, standard or optional. This seems to contradict the fact that a "should" is used earlier when considering conflicting optional pacakges. (Or maybe it is just a cultural mistundertanding: in the French law, a statement at the present tense is by default a "must".) Wouldn't it be more simple to just decide that optional packages do not conflict between each other ? There is at least one purpose: that one can install all optional packages at the same time without having to solve conflicts. There is also at least one drawback: if the conflicting packages serve a similar purpose, it makes Debian express a preference by having one optional and the others extra, which means potentially difficult decisions. Of course, an other possibility would be to suppress the extra priority if nothing relies on it. As said above, using overrides this would not make packages buggy. Maybe the people using the 'extra' priority for some purpose could briefly describe what they do? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
