changing priority optional->extra

[Sascha Steinbiss <steinbiss@zbh.uni-hamburg.de>]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to deal with some package dependency issues where an optional
package depends on one in extra:

http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package=genometools and
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package=ltrsift

Note that these seem to be have been inconsistent before as the PTS page
even says (http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/genometools.html):

There were override disparities found in suite unstable:
    libgenometools0: Override says libs - extra,
                     .deb says science - optional
    genometools: Override says science - extra,
                 .deb says science - optional
    libgenometools0-dev: Override says libdevel - extra,
                         .deb says libdevel - optional
    genometools-common: Override says science - extra,
                        .deb says science - optional
    genometools-doc: Override says doc - extra,
                     .deb says doc - optional

Quick question: is it the correct solution to simply change the sections
and priorities of the offending binary packages to fit the override
values and reupload? I presume that will not result in some unexpected
side effects?

Best regards
Sascha

P.S. If this is rather a candidate for the -mentors list just say so...

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Sascha Steinbiss
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