Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy

[Stephen Zander <gibreel@debian.org>]

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

If you can get Branden to go along, then go ahead.  However, I don't
understand the downside of changing the priority of libarts-dev.  The
policy section I quoted explicitly permits Build-Depends against lower
priority packages.  What concerns you about haing libarts-dev be
Priority: extra?

-- 
Stephen

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