Bug#950440: debian-policy: Confusing conflation of Essential:yes w/ Priority:required

2023-01-02 Thread Santiago Vila
El 18/12/22 a las 15:34, Chris Hofstaedtler escribió: Package: mawk Version: 1.3.4.20200120-3.1 Priority: required base-files Pre-Depends awk, mawk Provides awk Could become Priority: optional? I can answer for that one. A long time ago, we decided to ensure that some implementation of awk was

Bug#950440: debian-policy: Confusing conflation of Essential:yes w/ Priority:required

2022-12-18 Thread Chris Hofstaedtler
On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 12:21:11 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Here's the current list of these packages on my system: I'll note that this list is probably missing `apt`, which seems to be Priority: required but not Essential: yes. * Russ Allbery : > Guillem Jover writes: > > On Fri, 2020-01-17 at

Bug#950440: debian-policy: Confusing conflation of Essential:yes w/ Priority:required

2022-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > This was brought up on debian-devel, and I think it needs to be > updated/corrected in the policy manual: > On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 12:21:11 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: >> On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 11:12:50 +0100, Ansgar wrote: >>> Policy states: >>> "Removing a required packa

Bug#950440: debian-policy: Confusing conflation of Essential:yes w/ Priority:required

2020-02-01 Thread Guillem Jover
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.0.0 Severity: normal Hi! This was brought up on debian-devel, and I think it needs to be updated/corrected in the policy manual: On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 12:21:11 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 11:12:50 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > > Johannes Schau