Bug#758234: debian-policy: allow packages to depend on packages of lower priority
Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se> writes:
> Can't help but wonder why not just remove the "extra" (and mentioning it
> as deprecated in upgrade notes) rather than explicitly documenting it as
> deprecated. I guess keeping it around is useful to avoid people
> mass-bug-filing RC-bugs for all current extra packages.
I'd like to keep the documentation of extra because, for some time to
come, there will be a lot of packages in the wild that will have that
priority in their control files (even if they've been overridden by
ftp-master in the archive metadata). We therefore need to document that
the priority still exists.
Hm, it occurs to me that this wording should probably explicitly say that
the extra priority should be treated the same as optional if it appears
anywhere (although the archive-wide override change will mostly take care
of that).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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