Bug#39398: debian-policy has an unclear statement on dependancies and priorities

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> In /usr/doc/debian-policy/policy.html/ch2.html it says:
>    Packages may not depend on packages with lower priority values. If this
>    should happen, one of the priority values will have to be adapted.
> 
> I think this is unclear.  Especially the second sentence.  Perhaps this
> phraseology would be clearer:
> 
>   All dependencies in a package MUST have equal or higher priority than
>   the package itself.  In order to achieve this the priorities of one
>   or more packages may have to be adjusted.

I personally think that the original version is clearer.
"Dependencies" could be misleading.

   Julian

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  Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, QMW, Univ. of London. J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk
        Debian GNU/Linux Developer,  see http://www.debian.org/~jdg