Re: debootstrap/cdebootstrap failure: libsasl2 cannot be installed

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 10:20:55PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> > cdebootstrap sid failed today :
> 
> > O: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > O:   libsasl2: Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8+b1) but 2.1.22.dfsg1-9 is to be installed
> 
> > I'm not quite sure why cdebootstrap is trying to pull in libsasl2;
> > all packages in base seem to have already migrated to libsasl2-2.
> 
> Probably because libsasl2 itself is prio: important?

We could have avoided this by downgrading libsasl2 to standard in etch.

I don't understand why do we insist on being ultra-conservative
about fixing wrong package priorities before a release.