Bug#833694: libreoffice-gtk is no longer installable
Hi,
On 2016-08-08 11:36:27 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:19:15AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > 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.
>
> A package which is supposed to be gone can't be "unusable" because it's
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> not supposed to be used. Maybe you meant serious if you meant it being
> "uninstallable"?
The point is that "supposed to be gone" is what *you* (as a maintainer
of libreoffice) know. For the user who looks at the libreoffice
package description and/or had libreoffice-gtk already installed,
libreoffice-gtk should still be there as a real package.
> > 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
>
> No, it does.
> When there's only one provider it will choose that one provider.
> See e.g. [1]
OK, I thought that the goal of the rename was that libreoffice-gtk3
would provide libreoffice-gtk too.
> (Right now not because the "real" one does still exist and apt prefers that.)
But as I've said, the real -gtk will still be in stable and won't be
removed. Or what do you mean by 'the "real" one does still exist'?
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