Re: Override disparity checks (Was: Re: Transition plan for changing the default init system)
2014-07-17 16:31 GMT+02:00 Thorsten Glaser <tg@debian.org>:
>> * https://ftp-master.debian.org/override-disparity.gz
>
> This is not shown in the PTS, though. If we could get it to show
> up there, and maybe DDPO, that could help.
Indeed, it's in yaml format, so I guess it should be easy to integrate
it in PTS/Tracker. Any takers?
> MBF would probably not be... appreciated.
Yes, despite Policy §2.5 uses a "must", I don't think we should
mass-change overrides.
IMO, these should be handled on a case-by-case basis.
Looking more at it, it seems there are a lot of packages requiring
dependencies which are extra:
$ grep -E "^\s{4}" override-disparity | cut -d" " -f6 | sort | uniq -c
4789 extra
8 important
131 optional
17 standard
$
Looking at the policy again, I think extra is (mis)used quite too often.
Cheers,
Luca
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