#761253 Should not be priority standard

Package:
dc
Source:
bc
Description:
GNU dc arbitrary precision reverse-polish calculator
Submitter:
Josh Triplett
Date:
2015-04-01 12:33:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#761253#3
Date:
2014-09-12 07:12:50 UTC
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dc should not have priority "standard"; it should not be automatically
installed on all Debian systems.  Anyone who wants a command-line RPN
calculator can easily install it, and packages using it will have a
dependency on it.

- Josh Triplett
#761253#6
Date:
2014-09-15 09:08:44 UTC
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Control: reassign -1 dc
#761253#13
Date:
2015-03-31 12:40:11 UTC
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Package: bc
Version: 1.06.95-9
Followup-For: Bug #761253

Actually... I recommend the opposite, and I feel that bc should be upgraded to
"important."

"Important" is defined in the Debian Policy as "those [programs]
which one would expect to find on any Unix-like system." bc is defined by
POSIX[1] and is a common method of performing floating-point math from the
shell. Furthermore, bc is small and only depends on packages which are already
in either "important" or "required."

---Alex

[1] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/bc.html
#761253#18
Date:
2015-04-01 12:31:19 UTC
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Ugh, sorry for the noise. I got to this bug through `reportbug` and
didn't realize that it returned results for both dc and bc.

I don't have an opinion on dc's priority, but I do feel that bc should
be in "important." I see that they share the same source package, but
If it's possible for them to have separate priorities, that would be
ideal.

---Alex