Le jeudi 17 septembre 2009 à 03:11 +0200, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:39:08 +0200, Martín Ferrari wrote:
>
> > Xavier,
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 10:18, Xavier Bestel <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > your package depends on "makedev" which is an "extra" packages.
> > > 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."
> >
> > Thanks for noticing this, I'll see how can I remove the dependency.
> >
> > > Moreover, this makes "makedev" uninstallable and so blocks the sysv-rc
> > > conversion to dependency based boot.
> >
> > I don't understand this. How on earth can camstream make makedev
> > uninstallable by depending on it?
> >
> Ignore the report, camstream depends on udev | makedev, which is just
> fine.
>
> Xavier, a mass bug filing such as this has to be discussed on -devel
> first, you can't just go and file a pile of severity:serious bugs,
> especially when 1) the bugs wouldn't be RC even if they were real, and
> 2) most of them aren't even bugs.
Yes, sorry; I've been a bit quick to spam everybody with this report.
I have read the policy a bit too literally.
Xav
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