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Re: Priority of libsasl2 in etch



On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 03:12:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> # dpkg -s libsasl2
> Package: libsasl2
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: important
> Section: libs
> Installed-Size: 72
> Maintainer: Debian Cyrus SASL Team <pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
> Architecture: i386
> Source: cyrus-sasl2
> Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-8
> Depends: libsasl2-2 (= 2.1.22.dfsg1-8)
> Description: Authentication abstraction library
>  This is a transitional dummy package.  If nothing depends on it, this
>  package can be safely removed.

> If it's a dummy package, why is it "important", and "Section: libs"?
> Could we please change this to "optional" and "oldlibs" before the release?

Given that it is a dummy package, the cost of keeping it at 'important' for
now IMHO doesn't outweigh the risk of changing it a week before release.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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