Re: Should we allow packages to depend on packages with lower priority values?

2003-12-12 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:25:07PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > My understanding of the issue in the original post of this thread is > that situations can arrise where Debian policy forbids including some > package on a CD in a way that the poster thinks it should be > included. Meh. They're hint

Re: Should we allow packages to depend on packages with lower priority values?

2003-12-12 Thread Bill Allombert
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:31:49AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > I've just read Policy on this issue again, and more carefully. I think > Policy is slightly broken, in its description of 'extra' > > 1. Extra can include packages that conflict with packages in > 'required'. How can such packages b