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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

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 be addressed in a more idiomatic
> > > way.
> > 
> > Maybe update the policy text to match reality?
> > 
> > "Any packages depended upon by a higher priority package are, effectively,
> > raised to that package's priority."

I did write that we also need text to discourage raising priorities
without asking other interested parties, first.  And that should also
include the maintainer of the package which will get its priority raised.

IMHO, it would be fine if they're treated the same way we do pre-depends,
i.e. "ask in d-devel first", only we'd want to add at least debian-boot and
debian-cd and the relevant package maintainers as well.

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  Henrique Holschuh