Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2014-08-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Gerrit Pape writes: > Hi, in my opinion this paragraph in policy is just fine I really don't agree. Policy currently implies that the maintainers of packages control their priority settings in the archive. This is simply not true, and has not been true for as long as I've been involved in Debi

Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2014-08-16 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 02:22:33PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit > : > > > Am 15.08.2014 17:47, schrieb Gerrit Pape: > > > That this rule is violated in hundreds of cases [1] clearly shows that > > > there is something wrong which needs to

Re: Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2014-08-16 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 06:07:00PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Ansgar and everybody, > > there seems to be a consensus that the Policy should be updated, but there are > two non-compatible proposals. Hi, in my opinion this paragraph in policy is just fine and helps us to keep control over t

Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority

2014-08-16 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 02:22:33PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > > Am 15.08.2014 17:47, schrieb Gerrit Pape: > > > That this rule is violated in hundreds of cases [1] clearly shows that > > there is something wrong which needs to be addressed in a more idiomatic > > way. > > Mayb