Hallo Justin,
It seems you can use for all of the built packages the priority
"optional". And, to be correct, you need to. (Otherwise for example
protobuf_compiler would violate the Policy.)
I made an dependency analysis for the packages built by protobuf (with
the help of a small buggy script).
So you seem only to depend on required and standard packages, and the
extra priorities are be your own packages. (as -dev are usually priority
extra, I did not test them).
Tobias
libprotobuf-lite7
Package Priority
libc6 required
zlib1g required
libgcc1 required
libstdc__6 required
libprotobuf7:
Package Priority
libc6 required
zlib1g required
libgcc1 required
libstdc__6 required
libprotoc7:
libc6 required
zlib1g required
libprotobuf7 extra
libgcc1 required
libstdc__6 required
protobuf_compiler:
Package Priority
libc6 required
zlib1g required
libprotobuf7 extra
libgcc1 required
libstdc__6 required
libprotoc7 extra
python-protobuf:
Package Priority
libc6 required
libprotobuf7 extra
libgcc1 required
python_support standard
libstdc__6 required
python standard
Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2012, 22:58 +0100 schrieb Iustin Pop:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 02:57:57PM +0100, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > Package: libprotobuf7
> > Version: 2.4.1-1
> > Severity: minor
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > Please adjust the package priority of the package libprotobuf7 to optional.
> >
> > Rationale:
> > - It depends only on packages which are in priority optional or higher, so
> > it is policy-wise ok to have optional as well.
> > - Other depending packages (like libdrizzledmessage0 and its dependecy
> > drizzle) are forced to have a lower-than-required priority.
>
> Hi Tobias,
>
> Thanks, this is a good idea - I don't remember why I set the priority to
> extra, but reading now
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities I
> see no reason for the extra priority.
>
> Question: you referred to libprotobuf7 only, but I wonder if this
> shouldn't go across all packages; what do you think?
>
> thanks,
> iustin
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