Re: scipy packaging
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Ondrej Certik ha scritto:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Pietro Battiston <toobaz@email.it>
> wrote:
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>> Hello, a package I maintain, gvb, has just entered sid, and I
>> noticed that unfortunately I erroneously set "Priority: optional"
>> (it is wrong because it depends on python-scipy which has
>> "Priority: extra").
>>
>> I was already fixing this, but first I was curious on why scipy
>> had "extra". I noticed it Conflicts: with the following packages:
>>
>>
>> python-scipy-core, python2.3-scipy, python2.3-scipy-core,
>> python2.4-scipy, python2.4-scipy-core
>>
>> actually, those seem to me all obsolete or only used in kfreebsd
>> architecture... in other words, it seems to me better to set
>> "Priority: extra" in those and "Priority: optional" in main
>> python-scipy package.
>>
>> Please forgive me if I'm missing something, those are my first
>> steps as Debian maintainer...
>
> Thanks for asking these questions. Even though I try to keep
> python-scipy in shape, I don't know the answers. To me personally
> it doesn't really matter, if it's extra, or optional. But if you
> need something fixed in python-scipy and you get a consensus on
> that, I'll fix it, or help you fix it.
>
> Ondrej
Actually, a further look showed that all the packages in "Conflict:"
(do not exists in unstable/testing, and...) also have "Priority:
extra", so those conflicts are not themselves the reason of the
"extra" priority... they are maybe a hint (python-scipy has probably
"inherited" this), but I still don't get the original reason.
Anyway, if it's not so important, I will wait a couple of days for
some more info and then switch my package to "extra" and stop bothering.
thanks
Pietro
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