severity 546865 normal thanks Hi!
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 10:21:21 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > Package: fbset > Version: 2.1-23 > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.5 > your package depends on "makedev" which is an "extra" packages. Depends on “makedev (>= 2.3.1-24) | udev”. So I'm not going to remove the makedev dependency, I can invert the order of the alternatives though, and ... > That's a violation of Debian Policy 2.5: > "Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values > (excluding build-time dependencies). In order to ensure this, the > priorities of one or more packages may need to be adjusted." > > Moreover, this makes "makedev" uninstallable and so blocks the sysv-rc > conversion to dependency based boot. ... it's already possible to uninstall makedev. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
