Bug#833694: libreoffice-gtk is no longer installable
Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 libreoffice 1:5.2.0-1
Control: retitle -1 libreoffice long description mentions libreoffice-gtk, which is no longer a real package
Control: severity -1 normal
On 2016-08-08 07:08:04 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 12:58:45AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Source: libreoffice
> > Version: 1:5.2.0-1
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
>
> No, it doesn't make the whole LO unusable. Even if it was completely gone.
You're wrong. By package, it means here "libreoffice-gtk", which is
completely unusable when one wants to install it as no longer there.
> > libreoffice-gtk is no longer installable (no longer built?) with
>
> Yes, no longer built. You want libreoffice-gtk2. That clearly shows
> that it's for old version of GTK and that current desktops want
> Gtk3.
OK, so that's a different issue: The libreoffice description is
incorrect.
> apt-listchanges would have helped you.
The problem is that it is called too late, so that I had to rely on
the libreoffice description to see whether there had been a possible
change.
> > This package is still advertised in the libreoffice package
> > description, so that the user should be able to install it:
> >
> > * libreoffice-gtk: Gtk UI Plugin, GNOME File Picker support,
> > QuickStarter for GNOMEs notification area
>
> It will be, -gtk2 provides it. When all builds are there and the "real"
> -gtk2 is gone this will work. You are using unstable in a transition
> period...ö
No, the transition is already over. The problem is that the real -gtk2
is still in stable, thus will not be gone before long (and even users
under Debian/stable may still track oldstable for some reasons). And
even if it is gone, libreoffice-gtk won't be installable since it is
a virtual package, and things like "apt install" on a virtual package
don't work[*]. You need to say what the real packages are, either say
"libreoffice-gtk2 and libreoffice-gtk3" or "libreoffice-gtk*" otherwise
things don't appear to work for the end user.
[*] That's why in the dependencies, one needs to use "virtual | real"
instead of just "virtual".
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