Bug#397129: apt: depends on lower priority package

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:48:38PM +0100, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> was heard to say:
> Quoting Aurelien Jarno (aurel32@debian.org):
> > Package: apt
> > Version: 0.6.46.2
> > Severity: serious
> > Justification: Policy 2.5
> > 
> > apt is of priority "important" and depends on debian-archive-keyring
> > which is of priority "standard".
> > 
> > This violate policy 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."
> 
> 
> My first reaction is that it would be wiser to bump the priority of
> debian-archive-keyring rather than:
> 
> -lower that of apt
> 
> or
> 
> -reove the dependency on debian-archive-keyring
> 
> Comments?

  Sounds right to me.  The ftpmasters can do this without an upload
AFAIK.

  Daniel