Note that you mix two completely different questions in your email. On Sun, Apr 10, 2016 at 02:22:54PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/indices/override.stretch.main.gz > > I find there more than 48.000 overrides; which means that almost *all* > packages are overridden. > > What is the reason for that? I would expect that overriding is something > exceptional, but not the common way to set the priority? I guess that's an implementation detail of the archive software. Priority fields in the packages are only informational, that's all.
> Looking into the priorities, I found: > > 66 required > 64 important > 86 standard > 34854 optional > 13191 extra > > which means that almost one third of the packages is priority > "extra". From the policy, I would expect that the main reasons to give > the priority "extra" are either a conflict with another package, or the > dependency on a package with priority "extra". One of the other reasons is dh_make(1). It was broken by a stupid (IMO) #373603 in 2006 and fixed back by #706164 in 2013. Yet another one is the bad policy wording about "likely to be useful if you already know what they are" (see #660249 about dropping that). See also #759260 for discussions about dropping extra completely. -- WBR, wRAR
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