Re: Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy
Chris Cheney wrote:
> 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?
Yes. "Extra" is for things which conflict with "Optional" packages, and I
don't see that xlibs-static-pic conflicts with any "optional" packages.
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