Re: Conflicting packages not of extra priority.
On Thu, Feb 04, 1999 at 09:56:19PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> Since you want me to quote policy, I will do it, but I have already done
> it several times.
Excellent.
> extra
> This contains packages that conflict with others with higher
> priorities[*], or are only likely to be useful if you already know
> what they are or have specialised requirements.
You claim:
joost witteveen <joostje@debian.org>
libtricks conflicts with fakeroot
Now then, both are priority Optional. Therefore, neither one conflicts with
a package of a higher priority, and thus, there is no justification for a
bug report.
> packages which have "higher priorities"? Which ones? Obviously, since we
> are talking about packages which have extra priority, it refers to all the
> other priorities: required, important, standard and optional.
>
> So, extra is where packages which conflict with others with
> required, important, standard and optional priorities should go.
No, where packages that conflict with a different package OF A HIGHER
PRIORITY THAN ITSELF.
>
> There were people who didn't understand this, so I asked the person
> who wrote it. Now we know exactly what it means, and more important, the
> rationale.
>
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