Hi, I'm aware of the priority problem. I think libc-ares2 can become optional after fixing #476735 and we will be fine.
Cheers, Balint 2011/1/10 Adam D. Barratt <[email protected]>: > severity 609593 normal > thanks > > On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 20:30 +0000, Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote: >> Section 2.5 of debian policy states that packages MUST NOT depend on >> packages with lower priority values (excluding build-time dependencies). >> However, wireshark is optional and depends on the extra package >> libc-ares2. wireshark also depends on libkrb53, which is also extra on >> i386, but according to #609027 it seems that dependency will be removed. > > Thanks for your report. > > Whilst this is technically a violation of a MUST in Policy, the > requirements of the optional and extra priorities aren't really enforced > any more; see > http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=sid&list=main-only-priority&arch=ANY > for an indication of how many packages don't comply with Policy in this > respect. > > Part of this (the requirement for optional packages not to conflict with > other optional packages) is discussed in debian-policy bug #477990. > > I'm downgrading this report to normal severity, although the maintainer > may choose to modify that; in any case, this is certainly not release > critical for Squeeze. > > Regards, > > Adam > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
