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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