Bug#877494: libreoffice-sdbc-firebird: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)

[Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org>]

On 10/02/2017 10:31 AM, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 09:26:15AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> This was observed on the following upgrade paths:
>>
>>   jessie -> stretch -> buster
>>   (there was no libreoffice-sdbc-firebird in stretch, so the jessie
>>   version was probably kept installed on the upgrade to stretch)
> 
> "Probably"? Don't you have logs?

I was just too lazy to look it up :-)

> I can confirm though it's kept since jessies version just depends on -core without
> any version constraints. (probably will stop working then on upgrade but...
> Don't really feel keen on doing a o-p-u upload for this ;))

You could bundle it with the next o-p-u or o-security upload ...

> That was what indeed was done in stretchs debian/ but since there wasn't
> a stretch version of this package never executed. And removed for buster
> because those conversions were "not needed" anymore.
> 
> Reinstating the .maintscript for libreoffice-sdbc-firebird.

Thanks. Probably not worth an upload on its own ... feel free to
downgrade if it triggers autorm.


Andreas