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retitle 731835 override: libgmerlin-avdec1:libs/optional, override:
libgmerlin-avdec-dev:libdevel/optional, override:
libgmerlin-avdec-doc:doc/optional, override:
gmerlin-plugins-avdecoder: libs/optional
thanks
Dear ftp-masters,
Please change the priority for the above gmerlin-avdecoder packages
from extra to optional. This package doesn't need to be in extra, and
as a library it might want to be used by other optional packages in
the future.
Thanks
On 2013-12-10 15:09, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> severity 731835 serious reassign 731835 ftp.debian.org 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 libgmerlin-avdec1 should be assigned priority "optional",
> or its reverse dependencies should be priority "extra".
>
> for the sake of completeness/consistency, i'd also like to ask you
> to reassign the priority to "optional" for the other binary
> packages built from 'gmerlin-avdecoder' (with the exception of
> libgmerlin-avdec-dbg), namely: libgmerlin-avdec1
> libgmerlin-avdec-dev libgmerlin-avdec-doc
> gmerlin-plugins-avdecoder
>
> cheers
>
>
> On 2013-12-10 11:35, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
>> Package: libgmerlin-avdec1 Version: 1.2.0~dfsg-3+b1 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 libgmerlin-avdec1 depends on: ii
>> liba52-0.7.4 0.7.4-16 ii libavcodec54 6:9.10-1 ii
>> libavformat54 6:9.10-1 ii libc6 2.17-96 ii
>> libcdio13 0.83-4 ii libdca0 0.0.5-6 ii
>> libdvdread4 4.2.0+20130219-2 ii libfaad2 2.7-8 ii
>> libflac8 1.3.0-2 ii libgavl1 1.4.0-1 ii libgsm1
>> 1.0.13-4 ii libmad0 0.15.1b-8 ii
>> libmjpegutils-2.0-0 1:2.1.0+debian-1 ii libmpeg2-4 0.5.1-5 ii
>> libogg0 1.3.1-1 ii libopenjpeg2 1.3+dfsg-4.6 ii
>> libpng12-0 1.2.49-5 ii libpostproc52
>> 6:0.git20120821-4 ii libschroedinger-1.0-0 1.0.11-2 ii
>> libsmbclient 2:4.0.11+dfsg-1 ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1.1-1
>> ii libswscale2 6:9.10-1 ii libtheora0
>> 1.1.1+dfsg.1-3.1 ii libtiff4 3.9.7-2 ii
>> libvdpau1 0.7-1 ii libvorbis0a 1.3.2-1.3 ii
>> libvorbisenc2 1.3.2-1.3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-1 ii
>> libxext6 2:1.3.2-1 ii multiarch-support 2.17-96 ii zlib1g
>> 1:1.2.8.dfsg-1
>
>> libgmerlin-avdec1 recommends no packages.
>
>> libgmerlin-avdec1 suggests no packages.
>
>> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
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