Chris Cheney wrote: > On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:53:50PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: >> Package: libarts1-dev >> Version: 1.2.1-2 >> Severity: serious >> >> Section 2.5 says: >> >> Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values >> (excluding build-time dependencies). >> >> libarts1-dev violates this by being Priority: optional and depending on >> xlibs-stat-pic, which is Priority: extra > > Technically nothing really needs to depend on xlibs-static-pic at > runtime, but at the same time anything that builds against anything it > provides must Build-Depend on it otherwise they won't work on hardly any > of the archs in Debian. Making libarts1-dev extra isn't really a good > idea but not depending on xlibs-static-pic means that all KDE sources > will have to add explicit build depends on xlibs-static-pic. Perhaps > just changing xlibs-static-pic to optional would be the best solution?
Yes. "Extra" is for things which conflict with "Optional" packages, and I don't see that xlibs-static-pic conflicts with any "optional" packages. -- Make sure your vote will count. http://www.verifiedvoting.org/
