Bug#196367: debian-policy: clarify what to do about priority mismatches
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Josip Rodin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 01:54:59PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > By "unenforceable" you mean that ftp.debian.org do not allow NMUs?
>
> No, I mean that a complete consistency in the set of 10K packages is
> practically impossible to achieve, let alone sustain.
Well, last time there was a discussion about this I wrote this as a
"proof of concept" that it *was* indeed completely possible:
http://people.debian.org/~sanvila/override
And woody has around 9000 packages.
> And then there's always situations where it seems wrong to demote
> all non-default alternatives to extra just because there has to be a
> default.
There will always be people also for which this policy makes no sense
at all, but it exists (among other things) to let people install all
optional or higher packages without any conflicts at all.
If demoting some packages to extra because they conflict with an
optional package seems wrong to you, not being able to install all
optional packages without conflicts seems more wrong to me.
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