Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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, import

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
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 d

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
Peter Palfrader wrote: > On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote: > >> I was bored the other day and created a script that checks for this. a >> dd-list of them is available at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority.dd-list, >> and the explanations at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority > > You mean

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Peter Palfrader
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Felipe Sateler wrote: > I was bored the other day and created a script that checks for this. a dd-list > of them is available at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority.dd-list, and the > explanations at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority You mean like http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Felipe Sateler
Joona Kiiski wrote: > Hi! > > I just found out that piuparts (priority optional) depends on > debootstrap (priority extra) I was bored the other day and created a script that checks for this. a dd-list of them is available at felipe.sateler.com/wrong-priority.dd-list, and the explanations at fel

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Russ Allbery
"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 maintaine

Re: Package with optional priority depending on extra packages

2008-04-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Joona Kiiski wrote: > 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 eve