Bug#240188: Package dependencies violate policy

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

severity 240188 important
thanks

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

Per http://release.debian.org/sarge_rc_policy.txt, this is not
release-critical for sarge.

Also, priorities are controlled by the ftpmasters, so bugs against
individual packages for priority problems often confuse people (i.e.
they try to change the priority in the package and get confused when
this doesn't work straight off because the override file still has the
old value ...).

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]