On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 01:59:37PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Santiago Vila wrote: > > > In this case, however, I fail to see the rationale for actually > > *dropping* the extra priority, other than "it's not useful for me". > > Well, it may be useless for you but it's still useful for me. > > I have found the 'extra' priority to be useful personally, too. > Enough so that when that information has been incorrect (e.g., library > that is actually important being marked as 'extra'), I've been > motivated enough to file bugs with patches to fix it. And received > pushback from maintainers that don't understand what the field is for, > are confused about having to maintain it in two places (debian/control > and the ftpmasters override file), and are not especially happy with > having to take patches fixing it.
Did you try to report the bug directly to the ftp-masters ? If we decide that the ftp-masters are maintaining the field and not the package maintainers that would be the logical thing to do. 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/20141117221807.GB23830@yellowpig
