On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 01:46:47PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote: reassign 731834 ftpmaster thanks
Justification: section 2.5 "Packages must not depend on packages with lower
priority values (excluding build-time dependencies). In order to ensure this,
the priorities of one or more packages may need to be adjusted."
Either libdc1394-22 should be assigned priority optional, or its reverse
dependencies should be priority extra.
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 11:33:52AM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> Package: libdc1394-22
> Version: 2.2.1-2
> Severity: minor
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> I noticed that this package has a priority "extra".
>
> according to debian policy, i don't see a reason to not have priority
> "optional", since the package does not have any "specialized requirements"
> such
> as mentioned in §2.5 of the Debian policy.
>
> the problem i'm experiencing is, that some packages of priority "optional"
> depend on this package, which is a direct violation of §2.5 ("Packages must
> not
> depend on packages with lower priority values").
> so either these packages or your package ought to have fixed priorities, and i
> think it that this package would be the better place :-)
>
> quoting from #debian-mentors:
>
> 10:27 < zmoelnig> i'm wondering about the "priorities" field: which priority
> should i use as default for "most" packages? "extra" or "optional"?
> [...]
> 10:30 < wRAR> zmoelnig: optional
> [...]
> 10:31 < wRAR> there is #660249
> 10:31 < wRAR> the only example in the text (debug symbols) hints (at least for
> me) that this is not really about specialized software, but about
> non-software packages.
> 10:32 < wRAR> other widely used example is transitional packages
> [...]
> 10:34 < wRAR> at this point someone usually remembers that distinctions
> between
> optional and extra do not have a real meaning and that priorities should
> be abolished.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers unstable
> APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1,
> 'experimental')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.11-2-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=de_AT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages libdc1394-22 depends on:
> ii libc6 2.17-96
> ii libraw1394-11 2.1.0-1
> ii libusb-1.0-0 2:1.0.17-1+b1
> ii multiarch-support 2.17-96
>
> libdc1394-22 recommends no packages.
>
> libdc1394-22 suggests no packages.
>
> -- no debconf information
--
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <g...@debian.org>
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