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Debian science policy: Priorities field



Hi,

I just came around the science policy and found the following sentence:

| The Priority field should be set to "extra" if this is permitted by
| the Debian Policy, or set to "optional" otherwise.

However, the Debian Policy states:

| optional - (In a sense everything that isn't required is optional, but
|   that's not what is meant here.) This is all the software that you
|   might reasonably want to install if you didn't know what it was and
|   don't have specialized requirements. This is a much larger system and
|   includes the X Window System, a full TeX distribution, and many
|   applications. Note that optional packages should not conflict with
|   each other.
|
| extra - This contains all packages that conflict with others with
|   required, important, standard or optional priorities, or are only
|   likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have
|   specialized requirements (such as packages containing only detached
|   debugging symbols).

I would guess, the two priorities are mixed up in the Science policy,
right?

Best

Ole


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