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Bug#846002: blends-tasks must not be priority:important



Am 10.12.2016 um 15:20 schrieb Ole Streicher:

> If you mean here why we just didn't put blends-tasks as dependency into
> tasksel-data: this wouldn't help, since the Policy says (§2.5):
> 
> "Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values"
> 
> Since tasksel-data is Priority: important, blends-tasks would need to
> have this priority as well.

That part of the policy is non-sense and thankfully is in the process of
being fixed [1]. Library and helper packages should never be installed
because of their priority imho.
I deliberately violate that policy in various packages, fwiw.

Regards,
Michael

[I'll stop here since I don't want to derail the discussion to much,
just wanted to give my 2¢]

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=758234
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