Bug#758234: Bug#759260: [PATCH] Remove priority "extra", make all corresponding packages priority "optional"
Le Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 12:43:16AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs a écrit :
> Russ Allbery:
> >
> > Do you actually do this? Is optional actually conflict-free? I'm pretty
> > sure it isn't.
> >
> No, it's not. But I'd like it to be.
>
> However, if a consensus should emerge that it's too much hassle to file
> bugs against 100 packages (and then have at least half of their maintainers
> show up in -devel for the first time in $FOREVER, and try to argue that
> $OTHER_PACKAGE should be in Extra instead, because of $AD_HOC_REASON)
> then I'd grudgingly be OK with abolishing Optional.
Hi Matthias,
changes to the Policy are not made in order to trigger others to work in one
direction or the other, that is, the Policy is not an instrument to change the
current practice. Rather the contrary: the Policy documents the current
practice.
Unless you or others are going to invest significant amounts of time to make
the ‘extra’ priority taken seriously by the majority of the package
maintainers, you opposition has only the effect of keeping our documentation in
a state of confusion that does not reflect what is actually done.
So, thank you for being “grudgingly OK” with the proposed changes :) When we
do not contribute to an area of Debian's development, I think that we need to
be parcimonious in opposition, and keep it only for changes that have a major
impact on us.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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