Bug#841253: libreoffice-base-drivers: should no longer recommend libreoffice-sdbc-firebird, which is no longer built
Hi,
On Sun, Oct 30, 2016 at 12:18:53PM +0100, robert wrote:
> As previously stated by other users, Aptitude warns about a
> broken dependency when trying to update "libreoffice" from
> 1:5.2.2~rc2-2 to 1:5.2.3~rc1-4
IMHO, it's not the packages' problem if aptitude does that. AFAICS apt does not.
> The first suggested solution from the automatic resolver system
> is to remove the annoying package "libreoffice-sdbc-firebird".
> This triggers the removal of several packages some of which I
> found reported in another bug (#842316).
Sure. They presumably were only installed because libreoffice-sdbc-firebird
and thus are now removed when you remove libreoffice-sdbc-firebird.
> The 11th suggested solution is to keep the current version of
> libreoffice.
Which is most probably not what you want.
libreoffice-sdbc-firebird will (unfortunately) not come back for stretch.
Don't like this either, but you should complain at the firebird maintainer
for forcing firebird3.0 onto everyone at the last minute.
Regards,
Rene
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