Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy
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 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.20-evms Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy
> "Chris" == Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> Technically nothing really needs to depend on Chris> xlibs-static-pic at runtime, but at the same time anything Chris> that builds against anything it provides must Build-Depend Chris> on it otherwise they won't work on hardly any of the archs Chris> in Debian. Making libarts1-dev extra isn't really a good Chris> idea but not depending on xlibs-static-pic means that all Chris> KDE sources will have to add explicit build depends on Chris> xlibs-static-pic. Perhaps just changing xlibs-static-pic to Chris> optional would be the best solution? If you can get Branden to go along, then go ahead. However, I don't understand the downside of changing the priority of libarts-dev. The policy section I quoted explicitly permits Build-Depends against lower priority packages. What concerns you about haing libarts-dev be Priority: extra? -- Stephen "It's like crazy gluing your nostrils shut to quit cocaine" -- Bill Mahl, on stomach stapling as a weight control method
Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy
> "Chris" == Chris Cheney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Chris> I suppose you didn't look at the domino effect making Chris> libarts1-dev extra would have. Ah yes, all those packages that depend on kdelibs4-dev :/ Guess you'll have to see what Branden says. -- Stephen "In America, when a man puts something in another man, it better be a bullet" -- Bill Mahl, commenting on conservatives reaction to the concept of gay marraige
Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy
> "Riku" == Riku Voipio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Riku> are you really going to file a RC bug against all of these? In an admittedly unscientific sampling of those reports, all the ones I looked at were for dependencies on xlibs-dev. I would expect such issues to be fixed as packages were recompiled for whatever reason. Should they continue beyond the next release then yes, I will happily file serious bugs against all such instances. Xlibs-static-pic has *never* been priority: optional so a dependency on xlibs-static-pic is *not* the same thing IMHO. -- Stephen "If I claimed I was emporer just cause some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away"
