[pkg-php-pear] phing_2.7.0+dfsg-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[David Prévot]

Hi,

Le 02/09/2014 09:22, Ansgar Burchardt a écrit :
> On 09/02/2014 15:15, David Prévot wrote:
>> Le 02/09/2014 09:00, Thorsten Alteholz a écrit :
>>> Unfortunately policy does not allow to Recommend: something that is not
>>> yet in the archive. So I have to reject this pakage.

> Policy 2.2.1:
> 
>    In addition, the packages in main
> 
>       must not require or recommend a package outside of main for
>       compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a
>       "Pre-Depends", "Depends", "Recommends", "Build-Depends", or
>       "Build-Depends-Indep" relationship on a non-main package),

This part is in the context of the archive area, and the nonexisting
packages are de facto not available in an archive area outside of main.

Anyway, I just uploaded an updated phing package stripping away the
currently unavailable recommends, thanks for your input and your review.

>> Many packages in the archive have unsatisfiable recommends, that is not
>> a policy violation, that works fine, and doesn’t warrant any RC bugs, so
>> I’m quite surprised by this rejection.
> 
> That's a bug then.

I believe it’s a bug in the way the policy is currently worded, and may
raise one, to make it clear what the actual intent is. I’d like to get
some number before doing so, do you have any advice on how to spot all
recommended packages that are unsatisfiable in a given suite?

Regards

David

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