Am 10.12.2016 um 15:20 schrieb Ole Streicher: > If you mean here why we just didn't put blends-tasks as dependency into > tasksel-data: this wouldn't help, since the Policy says (§2.5): > > "Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values" > > Since tasksel-data is Priority: important, blends-tasks would need to > have this priority as well.
That part of the policy is non-sense and thankfully is in the process of being fixed [1]. Library and helper packages should never be installed because of their priority imho. I deliberately violate that policy in various packages, fwiw. Regards, Michael [I'll stop here since I don't want to derail the discussion to much, just wanted to give my 2¢] [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758234 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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