Hi! I just found out that piuparts (priority optional) depends on debootstrap (priority extra) This is against debian policy (section 2.5), so I reported bug #477634 with severity serious.
However, soon the severity was lowered to minor by maintainer with a comment: "priority optional and priority extra should probably be merged in this regard". Minor severity in BTS in my experience often means "not going to fix this soon or maybe ever". I'm not a DD/DM (and maybe never will be) and not in a position to advise any of you, but I just want you to consider the fact that if you allow optional packages freely depend on extra packages, it is possible that you'll end up in situation where optional packages conflict with each other (which under Morphy's law will have disastrous effects in dist-upgrade). Of course, it's also possible to claim this case as "a special exception", but programmers tend to hate "special exceptions" (and for good reason). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
