On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Russ Allbery wrote: > The problem that set off this entire discussion is the question of whether > we want to raise the priority of perl, perl-modules, and > init-system-helpers to important to match rsyslog, move the Perl modules > used by init-system-helpers to perl-core (thereby adding them to > Essential), or take some third course of action. That's well worth > discussing in a broader context, and I feel like trying to phrase that > question as a general discussion of the role of priorities in Debian is > not very helpful in starting that discussion.
I am missing the justification for the last paragraph of Debian Policy section 2.5. I feel that it may have been due to a limitation of our tools in the past and that these days there are zero downsides to this situation (debootstrap/etc handle it fine) so we should probably remove the paragraph from policy. There is also a downside to raising priorities in this way; raising the priority of dependencies of higher-priority packages means that if implementations of higher-priority packages change and the (now higher priority) dependencies are no longer needed, we have to do work to revert those changes. I think they would end up as cruft that is forgotten about or just cause busywork that we can avoid in the first place by not raising priority of dependencies. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caktje6gzfisnis__cex-rqqsznuvit6obugd3_xq4inh-_s...@mail.gmail.com