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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