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Re: Build-depending on non-free package



* Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>, 2014-08-14, 10:26:
Also, I am wondering about the section and priority: The control file [3] and the dsc file has contrib/science and optional, but the PTS lists them as contrib/misc and extra. Who changed that, why is this done, and shouldn't the uploaded/maintainer be informed about such changes?

The .dsc file has no Priority or Section on its own, only the binaries have that information. There may or may not be a priority and section for source files given in the .changes which may or may not be useful values.

Aha, now I'm reminded of this bug: #626394

As I don't really care about Priority and Section for source packages, I haven't thought further about this and dak currently uses misc:extra for all of them.

FSVO "all". :-P

$ cd /srv/ftp.debian.org/mirror/dists/unstable
$ xzcat */source/Sources.xz | grep ^Section: | sort | uniq -c | sort -r | head -n5
  4406 Section: misc
  2747 Section: perl
  1334 Section: libs
  1053 Section: utils
  1035 Section: python
$ xzcat */source/Sources.xz | grep ^Priority: | sort | uniq -c | sort -r
 19256 Priority: source
  2903 Priority: extra
     1 Priority: optional

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Jakub Wilk


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