Package: debian-policy Version: 3.8.0.1 Severity: normal Hello, Policy makers,
As discussed on [EMAIL PROTECTED], the FTP team enforces a priority of `extra' for packages whose purpose is to ship symbols for the GNU debugger. http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Indeed, only a small minority of packages do not follow that rule: sorbet【~】$ grep-available -P dbg -s Priority | sort | uniq -c 263 Priority: extra 8 Priority: optional sorbet【~】$ grep-available -FPackage dbg --and -FPriority optional -s Package Package: libonig2-dbg Package: icedove-dbg Package: libgnuradio-core0c2a-dbg Package: kdbg (obviously a false positive, but I could not do `-FPackage -dbg') Package: libwbxml2-0-dbg Package: kxsldbg Package: thunderbird-dbg Package: libnetfilter-log1-dbg Given this, I wonder if the Policy shouldn't require -dbg package to be `extra', to align on the enforced value in order to reduce the differences beteween the binary package we ship and the packages obtained by our users when they build them from the source packages we ship. A simple modification of the Policy like the following one could do the job: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -751,9 +751,10 @@ <item> This contains all packages that conflict with others with required, important, standard or optional - priorities, or are only likely to be useful if you + priorities, that are only likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have specialized - requirements. + requirements, or that only contain symbols for the GNU + debugger. </item> </taglist> </p> Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
