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Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy



On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 06:53:50PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
> Package: libarts1-dev
> Version: 1.2.1-2
> Severity: serious
> 
> Section 2.5 says:
> 
>     Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values (excluding
>     build-time dependencies).
> 
> libarts1-dev violates this by being Priority: optional and depending on
> xlibs-stat-pic, which is Priority: extra

Technically nothing really needs to depend on xlibs-static-pic at
runtime, but at the same time anything that builds against anything it
provides must Build-Depend on it otherwise they won't work on hardly any
of the archs in Debian. Making libarts1-dev extra isn't really a good
idea but not depending on xlibs-static-pic means that all KDE sources
will have to add explicit build depends on xlibs-static-pic. Perhaps
just changing xlibs-static-pic to optional would be the best solution?

Chris

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