On Mon 2017-01-02 19:47:00 -0500, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> There was an open bug about changing the overrides (#849903) and I just
> set all packages built from gpgme1.0 to "Priority: optional".
>
> I don't think there is any reason for the lib*-dev packages to be at
> Priority: extra?
I read:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities
as suggesting that -dev packages are generally more "extra-ish" than
"optional", but then again, i think of workstations set up for software
development as having "specialized requirements" compared with what most
computers might reasonably want to install:
>> optional
>>
>> (In a sense everything that isn't required is optional, but that's
>> not what is meant here.) This is all the software that you might
>> reasonably want to install if you didn't know what it was and don't
>> have specialized requirements. This is a much larger system and
>> includes the X Window System, a full TeX distribution, and many
>> applications. Note that optional packages should not conflict with
>> each other.
>>
>> extra
>>
>> This contains all packages that conflict with others with required,
>> important, standard or optional priorities, or are only likely to
>> be useful if you already know what they are or have specialized
>> requirements (such as packages containing only detached debugging
>> symbols).
I personally develop software, and i maintain many computers (for
myself, even), and i definitely *don't* want most of my computers to
include the -dev packages.
I'm happy to go with whatever the ftp-master team prefers, though. :)
--dkg
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