Re: Gratuitous promotion of random binaries to standard
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> On 23 Jan 1998, James Troup wrote:
>
> > Paul Seelig <pseelig@goofy.zdv.Uni-Mainz.de> writes:
> >
> > > Currently MC is distributed with the priority "extra", but since it
> > > is such a powerful tool for simplifying system administration tasks
> > > i'd like to see it distributed with priority "standard" instead.
> > >
> > > Do you approve of this idea?
> >
> > No.
>
> I'd agree it might be set to 'optional', but indeed not 'standard'.
Absolutely. Most (all?) packages that are currently listed "extra"
just have this priority level due to eigther a (currently fixed) bug
in debmake that made "extra" the default, or due to a misunderstanding
of the maintainer of the packaging rules.
According to debian policy, every "normal" package should have priority
"optional", unless
- it's installation may cause problems with other packages,
or do very strange things that really only very few people want.
In this case it should be extra,
- There are reasons to make it standard or higher priority.
As there are no convincing reasons to make mc "extra", it should
therefor have "optional" priority.
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