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Bug#816450: debcheck: Lists packages depending on libraries with lower priority

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  Bug#816450: debcheck: Lists packages depending on libraries with lower priority Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2019-12-14 12:30 +0100

#987158 — Bug#816450: debcheck: Lists packages depending on libraries with lower priority

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 07:19:29PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2016-03-01 23:14 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> > The debcheck script is listing packages depending on libraries with
> > lower priority. But the archive overrides were recently updated to
> > change libraries to have lower priority so that they would not get
> > stuck indefinitely by frontends.
> >
> > So it seems this check is partialy bogus now.
> 
> Two years later the check is completely bogus: Policy version 4.0.1 has
> removed the requirement that packages must not depend on packages with
> lower priority, and the FTP masters have changed the priorities of all
> libraries to optional.

I've made a merge request which should fix this:

  https://salsa.debian.org/qa/qa/merge_requests/24

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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