On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 09:45:29PM -0500, Eric Cooper wrote: > I saw today that the python-minimal package in unstable is tagged as > Essential (and currently pulls in python2.3). According to policy, > this is supposed to happen only after discussion on debian-devel and > consensus is reached, but I couldn't find that discussion in the list > archives. Joerg approved it at 09:50:15 2006/01/15, after Doko uploaded a new python-defaults package (-4). I've no idea why he accepted it as Priority:required and Essential:yes, and given that python-minimal isn't any different to regular python (though presumably will be if we ever switch to python2.4), I can't see why it was uploaded at this point. The -5 upload removed the Essential:yes tag, and lowered the priority to standard (apparently due to apt automatically installing Essential:yes packages and thus screwing up people who've pinned stable or testing, see #348354, and #348319), but since the override was already set at required, that's what the Priority: field still shows. Obviously, python2.4-minimal is what Ubuntu includes in its essential set; so presumably the idea is to move Debian to a similar arrangement. Maybe Doko's been paying attention to all the folks saying Ubuntu should contribute back more? I've changed the override to Priority: standard; I can't say I'm remotely impressed by how this has been handled. Cheers, aj
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