On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 03:04:56PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > Hello Tim Wootton, release-team, et.al.! > > Thanks for your bug report. > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:00:16AM +0000, Tim Wootton wrote: > > Package: bsdutils > > Version: 1:2.25.2-2 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: Policy 2.5 > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > libsystemd0 dependancy violates constraint at the end of section 2.5 > > of the policy manual that requires packages not depend on packages > > with lower priority. > > This (general) problem has been discussed (several times?) on > debian-devel already and as far as I remember and understood it was that > raising the priority of the relevant systemd binary packages could be > done but it did not solve any *practical* problem. Instead it seemed > easier to just fix policy. I guess that's where everyone lost > interest....
It is well settled that priority changes are done throught the distribution override file and not in the package control file and thus, an error of priority is not a RC bug in the package. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- 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/20141112143511.GA5446@yellowpig
