Le Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 02:22:33PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > > Am 15.08.2014 17:47, schrieb Gerrit Pape: > > > That this rule is violated in hundreds of cases [1] clearly shows that > > there is something wrong which needs to be addressed in a more idiomatic > > way. > > Maybe update the policy text to match reality? > > "Any packages depended upon by a higher priority package are, effectively, > raised to that package's priority."
Le Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:17:32PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit : > > I suggest to drop the following paragraph from 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. > > This requirement is not fulfilled by many packages and it doesn't seem > to break anything. > > 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. Hi Ansgar and everybody, there seems to be a consensus that the Policy should be updated, but there are two non-compatible proposals. Given that raising the priority of the packages needed by other high-priority packages is a work that would be done by the FTP Master team via overrides, mabye Ansgar or another member can give us a first-hand opinion on Henrique's proposition ? By the way, related to priorities, there is #196367 where it was proposed to document in the Policy that priorities are determined via overrides. Patches were submitted in 2003 and 2010. Is there a wording that you find more suitable ? - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196367#65 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196367#104 Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140816090700.gb5...@falafel.plessy.net
