[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Re: ltsp override disparity

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 06:02:02PM +0000, Debian Installer wrote:
> There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the
> override file for the following file(s):
> 
> ldm_0.99debian9_all.deb: package says priority is extra, override says optional.
> ltsp-client-builder_0.99debian9_all.udeb: package says priority is extra, override says optional.
> ltsp-client_0.99debian9_i386.deb: package says priority is extra, override says optional.
> ltsp-server-standalone_0.99debian9_all.deb: package says priority is extra, override says optional.
> 
> Either the package or the override file is incorrect.  If you think
> the override is correct and the package wrong please fix the package
> so that this disparity is fixed in the next upload.  If you feel the
> override is incorrect then please reply to this mail and explain why.

i believe the override file needs to be updated. we changed the
priorities in the packages for the following reasons:

there are several violations of debian-policy 2.5 pointed out at:

http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?dist=unstable&package=ltsp

ltsp-server-standalone depends on ltsp-server, which is priority
extra(due to a dependency on debootstrap which is priority extra).

ltsp-client depends on lsb-release, which is priority extra. on sparc,
ltsp-client also depends on sparc-utils, which is priority extra.

also, ltsp-client, ldm and ltsp-client-builder should be priority extra,
as they seem to fit the following description of priority extra in
debian-policy 2.5:

   "... are only likely to be useful if you already know what they are
   or have specialized requirements."

they are all used to provide thin-client functionality, which seems to
me would qualify as "specialized requirements" that only people who know
what they are for would likely want installed.

thanks!

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