Bug#736716: Please raise package priority.
Control: retitle -1 freebsd-manpages: Should be installed by default on kfreebsd-any
Control: severity -1 wishlist
Hi Mats,
Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
> This package has priority "optional", meaning it will not get
> installed except by a manual intervention of the system operator, in
> spite of the package containing information vital to the proper
> operation of a GNU/kFreeBSD system.
Good point.
> Please raise the package priority to "important"
That would be one way to do it, yes.
> and do also assign it to architecture "kfreebsd-any"
Urgh. No, I won't do that for multiple reasons:
* It's an architecture independent package which takes quite a while
to build. I refuse to unnecessarily put that load onto the
build-daemons. Besides that this would trigger quite some
lintian-warnings (arch-dep-package-has-big-usr-share,
documentation-package-not-architecture-independent, etc.)
* I think the package should still be installable and available on
linux-any, just not by default:
> in order that the users of GNU/Linux not complain too loudly.
I though think that wouldn't hurt that much. But yeah, it would be
nice.
So raising the priority is probably the wrong way to reach your real
goal, the automatic inclusion in default installations. Retitling the
bug-report accordingly.
Another possibility would be to make an arch:kfreebsd-any to depend on
(or maybe recommend) it, or make an arch:any package to depend on (or
maybe recommend) it only on kfreebsd-any.
But then again, this will likely disregard the rule that no package
should depend on a package with lower severity. (Not sure if that also
counts for Recommends, which are installed by default, at least after
the D-I.)
Regards, Axel
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