multimedia-blends: policy question(s)

[Ross Gammon]

On 06/12/2015 02:39 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> On 06/11/2015 09:23 PM, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>
>> The blends machinery automatically demotes all Depends to Recommends.
>> See the generated packages[1].
>>
>> I'm not sure if Recommends are demoted to Suggests.
>>
> 
> looks like it does for non-existing packages (e.g. "boodler" in
> soundsynthesis).
> 
> gfmrdsa
> IOhannes

Yes, when we build the metapackages, the d/control file is regenerated
demoting anything that does not exist in the target distribution to a
"suggests". Even though unstable is the target distribution, it checks
against testing in case there are packages not migrating due to a RC bug
or something.

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