Bug#452393: [PROPOSAL] clarify overstep between "required" and "important" priorities
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> writes:
> As far as I can tell the following packages are Priority: required but
> not Essential: yes (in sid/amd64/main), or (pre-)depended on by an
> Essential package (possibly recursively):
> - debconf-i18n, liblocale-gettext-perl, libtext-charwidth-perl,
> libtext-iconv-perl, libtext-wrapi18n-perl: since debconf 1.5.39 -i18n
> is only a Recommends. Could probably be downgraded to important?
> - mawk: one of the alternatives for base-files' Pre-Depends, so actually
> pseudo-essential
> - xz-utils: Jonathan covered this
Thank you very much for doing this research!
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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