Ansgar Burchardt <ans...@debian.org> (2014-08-15): > Having packages with priority >= standard pull in libraries with lower > priority seems also more useful than raising the priorities of the > libraries as they alone do not satisfy the requirements for higher > priorities: I don't think any library belongs to "Important programs, > including those which one would expect to find on any Unix-like > system.", yet we have many libraries with such priority in the archive.
FWIW the library packages are not considered by tasksel (and by d-i as a consequence), see line 230 in the following code block: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/tasksel/tasksel.git/tree/tasksel.pl#n223 Other tools which are reimplementing this kind of logic (like live-build as I discovered on #debian-cd today), can fail though. Example: libdb5.1 was still pulled because of its priority, while db5.1-util Breaks: it and was pulled through the requested apt install set, resulting in a conflict and a failed installation run. Needless to say, I'm not going to defend the fact they duplicate code, but I thought that might be an extra data point. Mraw, KiBi.
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