Clint Adams <cl...@debian.org> writes:

> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 01:39:39PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>> Or simply add a footnote stating that two packages are NOT unrelated
>> if one depends on the other.
>
> Could someone explain why this is a useful distinction?

Because a package that doesn't work at all (and thus breaks rdeps) isn't
as broken as a package that wipes the root fs on installation. In my
understanding that is the difference between grave (broken and makes
rdeps fail) and critical (broken and makes the entire system fail).

-- 
Arto Jantunen


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