Hi, going through the list of RC bugs in squeeze, I noticed #560778:
--------------------------------------------------------------- From: Ron <r...@debian.org> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> Subject: apt-listchanges: depends on things in optional, which depend on things in extra Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 16:22:09 +1030 Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.83+nmu1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.5 Hi, I see from the changelog that moving this to standard priority was discussed on devel nearly 2 years ago now. Currently however the chain of dependencies that it drags in extend all the way down into extra. As much as it would be nice to have this functionality by default, I'm not really sure we also want to drag all of those extra things (and the things that they may later also drag in) to the standard system. If people really want this as standard, perhaps they should consider instead implementing it in a manner that only depends on existing standard packages. Maybe even making it a standard feature of apt itself. Cheers, Ron --------------------------------------------------------------- The packages apt-listchanges depends on which are not priority standard are python-support and python-apt. Somehow I doubt that apt-listchanges will be rewritten soon to work without them, so I thought I gather input whether there are objections to change the priority back to optional (or extra?) and be done with the RC bug for squeeze. (For squeeze+1 I'd also like to see apt-listchanges be standard, but still then, somebody would need to do the work...) cheers, Holger
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