Bug#477990: Remove non-conflicting requirement in optional; relax dependencies

2008-04-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
You might as well kill the entire priority business from packages altogether and rely entirely on the overrides. The priority is, after all, not really a property of a package but a property of the distribution. As long as there is no practical way for a package maintainer to verify the correc

Bug#477990: Remove non-conflicting requirement in optional; relax dependencies

2008-04-26 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Santiago Vila wrote: > While it made possible to install all of optional, the idea of this > policy was never that someone install all of optional. The idea was > that when browsing the package list, a user could actually choose > *whatever* set (small or big) of optional packa

Bug#477990: Remove non-conflicting requirement in optional; relax dependencies

2008-04-26 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: wishlist User: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UserTags: discussion Tag: patch The requirement of optional packages not to conflict with eachother and not to depend on essential packages are outdated, and appear to st