Bug#842316: Please consider demoting libreoffice-sdbc-firebird to suggests

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Package: libreoffice-base-drivers
Version: 1:5.2.3~rc1-4
Severity: normal

Hi,

I think firebird support is exotic enough, that it shouldn't be
installed by default, which is currently the case via
libreoffice->libreoffice-base->libreoffice-base-drivers->libreoffice-sdbc-firebird

I just did a fresh GNOME stretch installation, and was suprised to find
the following packages being installed:

firebird2.5-common-doc				install
firebird2.5-common				install
firebird2.5-server-common			install
firebird3.0-common-doc				install
firebird3.0-common				install
libreoffice-sdbc-firebird			install

Thanks for considering.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libreoffice-base-drivers depends on:
ii  dpkg              1.18.10
ii  libc6             2.24-5
ii  libgcc1           1:6.2.0-9
ii  libreoffice-core  1:5.2.3~rc1-4
ii  libstdc++6        6.2.0-9
ii  uno-libs3         5.2.3~rc1-4
ii  ure               5.2.3~rc1-4

Versions of packages libreoffice-base-drivers recommends:
pn  libreoffice-sdbc-firebird  <none>
pn  libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb    <none>

Versions of packages libreoffice-base-drivers suggests:
pn  libjtds-java                                                <none>
pn  libreoffice-mysql-connector | libmyodbc | libmysql-java     <none>
pn  libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql | odbc-postgresql | libpg-java  <none>
pn  libsqliteodbc | tdsodbc | mdbtools                          <none>

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