Bug#841253: libreoffice-base-drivers: should no longer recommend libreoffice-sdbc-firebird, which is no longer built

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 07:35:58AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:38:54AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > The package libreoffice-sdbc-firebird is no longer built.
> > So, libreoffice-base-drivers should no longer recommend it
> 
> Yeah, didn't do that because it'll be back in 5.3 anyways.
> 
> > (which can partially block upgrades due to the broken
> > Recommends).
> 
> Don't buy that. How do unavailable Recommends: block upgrades?

Just tried it:

- cowbuilder login to a testing.
- removed the pbuilder config saying recommends shouldn't be installed per default
- apt install libreoffice (installs also libreoffice-sdbc-firebird)

- testing -> unstable in sources.list
- apt update && apt dist-upgrade

# apt dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-server-common
  firebird3.0-common firebird3.0-common-doc libfbclient2 libfbembed2.5
  libtommath1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libreoffice-sdbc-firebird
The following packages will be upgraded:
  binutils fonts-opensymbol libapparmor1 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev
  libdatrie1 libelf1 libgnutls30 libhyphen0 libjcommon-java libjpeg62-turbo
  libnspr4 libreoffice libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer libreoffice-base
  libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-calc
  libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-impress
  libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-librelogo libreoffice-math
  libreoffice-nlpsolver libreoffice-ogltrans libreoffice-pdfimport
  libreoffice-report-builder libreoffice-report-builder-bin
  libreoffice-script-provider-bsh libreoffice-script-provider-js
  libreoffice-script-provider-python libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb
  libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql libreoffice-style-galaxy
  libreoffice-wiki-publisher libreoffice-writer libsqlite3-0 libthai-data
  libthai0 libwps-0.4-4 lsb-base multiarch-support python3-uno uno-libs3 ure
49 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Works?

Regards,
 
Rene