Bug#484269: Policy 2.5 disagrees with you
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 01:39:14PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> "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 agree that that is the proper response. (Also, the bug should really
be on ftp.debian.org (as well?) since they're the ones who need to
adjust the overrides.)
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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