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

From Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.devel.qa
Subject Bug#816450: debcheck: Lists packages depending on libraries with lower priority
Date 2018-02-18 19:30 +0100
Message-ID <vkBSN-ac-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References <r80O6-6VE-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <r80O6-6VE-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
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On 2016-03-01 23:14 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:

> Package: qa.debian.org
> Severity: wishlist
> User: qa.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: debcheck
>
> Hi!
>
> 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.

Cheers,
       Sven

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