Raising priority of Debian packages
Hi,
thanks to manual actions from Ansgar Burchardt, the process to raise
priority of Debian packages, after dependencies to packages of lower
priority have been added to high priority packages, is now a bit more
transparent
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=ftp.debian.org;dist=unstable#_0_1_4
Here we can see for example that amongst other packages, perl and
perl-modules are queued to be changed from standard to priority
important.
Still, that's not ideal. IMHO maintainers of high (<= important)
priority packages should (1) think twice before adding new dependencies
to lower priority packages, and (2) file a corresponding bug against
ftp.debian.org when doing so to make it transparent[0].
Interesting parties then can track the list of override requests in the
BTS and comment when disired or necessary. It might be that I'm the
only one interested in having a consistent and small, if not minimal,
set of packages in the higher priorities, but maybe there're others.
[0] Actually policy 2.5 requires to additionally file a RC bug to the
high priority package with the added dependency to prevent it from being
migrated to testing until the override decision has been made.
Regards, Gerrit.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 05:27:31PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:51:44PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Please do not report RC bug for this. Priorities are adjusted by the FTP master
> > team by batch using the overrides file. There is no need to report bugs against
> > the packages.
>
> Hi, I filed three bugs for the extreme, where priority required depends
> on priority extra in current jessie. No fear, I won't do mass filing.
>
> I queried all the numbers on this beforehand. And I don't think it's
> good to solve all this through ftp master's override[0]. This will
> bloat the installations using high priority packages more and more.
>
> In stable we have the following violations (packages)
> important: 8
> required: 2
> standard: 21
> In current testing:
> important: 15
> required: 5
> standard: 43
>
> It's not hundreds, or thousands. Keep cool.
> rsyslog was fine when we raised its priority in wheezy.
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