Bug#841253: libreoffice-base-drivers: should no longer recommend libreoffice-sdbc-firebird, which is no longer built
On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:20:38AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2016-10-19 07:35:58 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:38:54AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > > (which can partially block upgrades due to the broken
> > > Recommends).
> >
> > Don't buy that. How do unavailable Recommends: block upgrades?
>
> I don't remember exactly, but unsatisfied Recommends as an effect
> on the resolver cost in aptitude:
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s05s05.en.html
Erm, wait. You file a bug claiming it breaks upgrades based on resolver costs
(which do not matter for the actusl upgrade), so purely on a theoretical basis?
> Moreover, even if the user has the choice, he may prefer not to
> upgrade when a Recommends would be broken, because it could make
Well, then he doesn't. (Then we would need to stay on oldstable, but..)
> software not work properly (here, there was no immediate indication
> that the recommended package was missing on purpose).
True, the only source is the changelog. But then again people who do
dist-upgrades shouldn't blindly do them but look what happens. (And maybe
read the changes).
(And popcon is sufficiently low in "vote":
https://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=libreoffice-base%2Clibreoffice-sdbc-firebird&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&want_ticks=on&from_date=&to_date=&hlght_date=&date_fmt=%25Y-%25m&beenhere=1 so it does not affect very much people,
especially because you explictely need to enable Experimental Features in LO
to actually be able to use it)
Regards.
Rene
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