[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#845803: Bug#845803: src:gpgme1.0: please consider reducing priority of -dev packages

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Control: tags 845803 + confirmed

On Sat 2016-11-26 15:16:06 -0500, Ryan Tandy wrote:
> Package: src:gpgme1.0
> Version: 1.8.0-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Today I noticed that "aptitude install ~pstandard" pulls in many more 
> packages than it used to. A significant part of this seems to be 
> transitive Depends of libgpgmepp-dev, via qtbase5-dev.
>
> It looks like Priority: standard is set for the entire gpgme1.0 source 
> package (all binaries). Please consider reducing the priority of the 
> binary packages that are not dependencies of other Priority: standard 
> packages (at least the -dev and -doc packages).

You're absolutely right, sorry about this.  I'm not convinced that any
of the gpgme packages need to be priority: standard, in fact.

Looking at the revision control history, this was bumped from "optional"
to "standard" back in 2013 in response to a request from the mutt
maintainer: https://bugs.debian.org/623353

however, mutt is today priority: optional itself, so i'm going to bump
all of gpgme back down to "optional" (and its -dev packages down to
"extra") in the next release.

Thank you for catching this and reporting it, Ryan.

Regards,

        --dkg
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