Priority of libsasl2-modules

[Fabian Fagerholm]

Hi,

There is still one disparity between our control file and the override
file (see below).

I'm little bit uncertain whether we should request an override change --
I've asked for it before, but ftp-master apparently did not consider the
-modules package to be of important priority. Policy says, among other
things (§2.5):

        Other packages without which the system will not run well or be
        usable must also have priority important.
        [...]
        The important packages are just a bare minimum of
        commonly-expected and necessary tools.

The first sentence might be interpreted as supporting an important
priority for the -modules package (libsasl2-2 is dysfunctional in most
use cases without it), but the paragraph as a whole does support a
"minimum" interpretation: if something can be of lower priority, it
should.

Therefore, I'm lowering the priority of the -modules package to
optional. Please attach arguments based on policy to any complaints, so
that we can approach ftp-master with more than an opinion :)

Cheers,
-- 
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net>

-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Debian Installer <installer at ftp-master.debian.org>
To: Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>
Subject: cyrus-sasl2 override disparity
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:47:04 +0000

There are disparities between your recently accepted upload and the
override file for the following file(s):

libsasl2-modules_2.1.22.dfsg1-9_i386.deb: package says priority is important, 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.

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