Hello, On Wed, Mar 07 2018, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > On 2018-03-04, Sean Whitton wrote: >> stretch has qpdf 6, and stretch-backports should soon have qpdf 8. >> >> ocrmypdf is in stretch-backports. I am thinking about adding the >> following to ocrmypdf's d/control: >> >> Depends: qpdf Recommends: qpdf (>= 7) >> >> because ocrmypdf's upstream recommends qpdf 7 or newer to obtain >> better output from ocrmypdf. >> >> If I do this, will >> >> apt-get -t stretch-backports install ocrmypdf >> >> also pull in the backport of qpdf, assuming that the local admin has >> not disabled the installation of recommends? Or must I use "Depends: >> qpdf (>= 7)"? > > Versioned recommends don't tend to do much, in my experience, but it's > been a while since I've tried. > > I suspect apt would just install qpdf from stretch in the above > example, since that satisfies the Depends, and not bother with > packages with lower than the default pin-priority. > > Maybe aptitude would be more adventurous... Thanks. Sounds like I need to add a hard Depends to the backport, even though it's not semantically correct. -- Sean Whitton
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