This policy requirement is only historic. It made sense when the tools couldn't cope with this situation, which was the case more than a decade ago. These days, it is actively harmful: it makes debootstrap install junk if I exclude systemd (as its dependencies have an elevated priority), greatly increases the work when trying to reduce the size of standard (as in a recent thread on debian-devel), etc.
Thus, I say that it needs to be revisited once people are not busy with the freeze. I'll raise this issue with the policy team, suggesting changing the "must" requirement all the way to "must not": a package must not elevate its priority just because it's depended on unless it has extra functionality that itself warrants a given priority. For now, let's not change packages back and forth. Let's close this non-issue in rsyslog, it's a problem with the policy. -- // If you believe in so-called "intellectual property", please immediately // cease using counterfeit alphabets. Instead, contact the nearest temple // of Amon, whose priests will provide you with scribal services for all // your writing needs, for Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory prices. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
