[Pkg-ltsp-devel] ltsp override disparity

[Otavio Salvador]

Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant at freegeek.org> writes:

> several problems with priorities were noted at:
>
> http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=unstable&package=ltsp
>
> debootstrap is priority extra, which required updating the priority for
> ltsp-server. which then required an update for ltsp-server-standalone,
> which depends on ltsp-server. sparc-utils is alsa priority extra, so the
> priority for ltsp-client was updated.
>
> for all the packages, i feel "extra" is more appropriate anyways, based
> on my interpretation of debian policy:
>
>   `optional'
>         (In a sense everything that isn't required is optional, but
>         that's not what is meant here.) This is all the software that you
>         might reasonably want to install if you didn't know what it was
>         and don't have specialized requirements.  This is a much larger
>         system and includes the X Window System, a full TeX distribution,
>         and many applications.  Note that optional packages should not
>         conflict with each other.
>
>    `extra'
>         This contains all packages that conflict with others with
>         required, important, standard or optional priorities, or are only
>         likely to be useful if you already know what they are or have
>         specialized requirements.
>
> i don't think ltsp-server or ltsp-client should be installed on a system
> unless the person actually knows what they are, and i would say an ltsp
> environment is "specialized requirements". or am i interpreting that too
> broadly?
>
> should i (we) resend a request to update the overrides?

Yes, I think you're right. Please do that and keep me cc when doing it.

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