Bug#759260: removal of the Extra priority.
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> Someone asks you to install a package.
> If the package has priority "optional", you can just install it. The
> vast majority of the time, it won't conflict with anything else you have
> installed. Yes, there are exceptions, but for this use case, them being
> pretty rare is sufficient.
> If the package has priority "extra", you can look around for an
> alternative with priority "optional", install that instead, and tell the
> user what you've done.
Just to provide more anecdata here, I have done exactly this as well.
> I believe this is concrete. Whether it's worth the packager effort is
> another question, but this is a real use case and it is something people
> do.
Yup.
My feeling is that the data quality is low enough that we at least need to
provide considerably better guidance to packagers or ftp-master or
*someone* than we do right now if we want to this to be consistently
usable.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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