Hi, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Ansgar, you have written that you find the priority “extra” useful in some > situations, but for me it is not clear if the uses cases are for human > readability, or if it is to rely on that priority in automated processes. > Could you give us details ? There is probably something to learn from them. Thanks. I'd be curious about this, too. > Regarding the clarification of how priorities are managed, this has been under > consideration for more than 10 years in #196367, whith one of the proposed > wordings being seconded. In my point of view, we should insert this > clarification in the Policy in a non-normative way, that is, with a wording > that escapes the procedural overhead of looking for seconds. Quoting the end of that discussion: | Meanwhile, here is my take on a patch to address this bug. It makes | assumptions about some of the answers to the open questions, so it is | likely wrong or incomplete. It doesn't sound to me like it was ready for seconds. Did I miss something? > “The Priority and Section of the binary packages distributed in the Debian > archive are set through a centralised ‘override’ file where values may differ > from the field value in the source packages. The ‘override’ system is managed > by the FTP master team and is outside the scope of this document.” Sounds good. > Lastly, about raising directly or transitively priorities to required or > important, I think that it would be useful and constructive to ask that at > least a notification is sent on debian-devel. I think that *might* make sense for required. I think it would be counterproductive for important. The project has grown enough that procedures involving working with the relevant people (in this case, the maintainers of dependencies of a package that is being bumped in priority) almost always work better than contacting the project as a whole and hoping someone will take responsibility. Thanks, Jonathan -- 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/20140826001822.gx20...@google.com
