Re: changing priority optional->extra
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On 05.11.2013 23:37, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear Sascha,
Dear Charles,
> the Priority and Section fields of a package are used once, when
> they are accepted for the first time in the Debian archive.
> Further changes have no effect; one has to request the FTP team to
> change the metadata of the archive directly by opening a bug on the
> pseudopackage “ftp.debian.org”. For this, using the 'reportbug'
> tool is recommended.
I see. I remember that during the first upload the priorities were set
to extra, and only later changed to optional to comply with the DebMed
policy -- I guess that's where the disparities came from in the first
place. Do you think it is worth the while to file a change request?
[...]
> For the priority, there are not many practical difference between
> “optional” and “extra”, the main one being that all the “optional”
> packages must be co-installable. So if genometools does not
> conflict with another package nor depend on an “extra” package, it
> may be more straightforward to chose “optional”.
Well, in the current state there are even optional-extra dependencies
within binary packages from the same source package, such as
python-genometools vs. libgenometools0, see
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=testing&package=genometools.
Whatever of both is chosen, I'd really like to straighten these out
into a consistent state.
> In the case of the sections, libraries should be in the “libs”
> section so here it is definitely the source package that has to be
> corrected. By the way, the override disparities are a minor
> problem, so there is no need to immediately upload if it is only to
> propagate the changes.
Great, thanks for the information! I will make the necessary
adjustments to the packages and upload with the next updated upstream
release.
> Have a nice day,
You too, and best wishes
Sascha
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Sascha Steinbiss
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University of Hamburg
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