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Re: ITR: febootstrap



On 09/05/27 13:02 -0700, Russ Allbery said ...
> Y Giridhar Appaji Nag <appaji@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Comments:
> >
> > - in debian/control, Section should be admin (not devel) and priority should
> >   be optional (not extra).
> 
> Hm, why would you increase the priority to optional?  This seems like an
> extra thing to me -- only people with specific needs who already knows
> it exists are likely to want to use this package.

I read that part of policy (only likely to be useful if you already know what
they are) as "there is an optional package that has been built out of the same
source package, but this one is built for special needs of that package".  My
understanding was that this was largely for packages that conflict with those
in >= optional.

OK, I looked at debootstrap and cdebootstrap, while the former is extra the
latter is optional.

As a maintainer of policy, what do you think?

Regards,

Giridhar

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