Bug#246463: should not depend on missing packages

[Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>]

[Andreas Metzler]
> That is a typo, isn't it? s/testing/unstable/

No, it isn't If it build using the packages in unstable, debian-edu
will have problems propagating into testing as its dependencies might
be stuck in unstable.

> Otherwise debian-edu would ethernally continue to block any migration
> to testing, Because the list of packages in testing will never change
> because debian-edu prevents their migration.

Why is there no packages in unstable providing the kmix and kgeo
packages?  That would solve the mentioned packages, right?

> What is the status? Are you interested in a NMU? I have got one
> ready:

The status is that I've been very busy, and haven't been able to give
this much thought.

> debian-edu (0.768-0.1) unstable; urgency=high
>
>   * NMU
>   * Urgency high because it fixes an rc bug.
>   * rebuilt debian/control with
>     make -f debian/rules TARGET_DIST=unstable debian/control
>     to update dependencies. (Closes: #246463)

I do not think this will work, as debian-edu then would get stuck in
unstable because some of the packages it would like to depend on are
not yet in testing.

I suspect a better fix is to add the missing provides to the packages
replacing the removed packages.