Bug#484269: Policy 2.5 disagrees with you
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> "Moore, Joe" <joe.moore@siemens.com> writes:
>
>>>From the Debian Policy manual:
>> 2.5
>> Packages must not depend on packages with lower priority values
>> (excluding build-time dependencies). In order to ensure this, the
>> priorities of one or more packages may need to be adjusted.
>>
>> openssh-server has Priority: optional
>> openssh-blacklist has Priority: extra
>
> openssh-blacklist has the wrong priority and should be priority: optional.
> This problem is significant enough that the need for this package is not
> an unusual or edge case. I'll file a bug against openssh-blacklist asking
> that it be increased.
I spoke too soon -- I shouldn't have taken your word for the priority of
openssh-blacklist. It's already priority: optional. So nothing to fix
here.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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