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Re: Bug#63347: tcsh-i18n: Incorrect dependancy



On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 02:46:05PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Whether it is a straightforward violation is a moot point - look at the long
> > thread it generated, and you haven't managed to persuade the other three
> > participants that what you're right.
> 
> How can it possibly be moot? The penultimate sentence of section 2.2 of the
> policy manual is 
> 
> Packages may not depend on packages with lower priority values
> (excluding build-time dependencies).
> 
> One may not agree with the policy, but it is clear.
> 
> (I think the consensus would be that in the presence of "Depends: X|Y",
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> policy is satisfied so long as one of X or Y not lower, but it might be
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> better to make that explicit.)

What you said.   :|

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