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Bug#431391: Recommends field not binNMU-proof



Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org> writes:

>   Today, when aptitude wanted to upgrade libgutenprintui2-1 to its
> more recent binNMU, it wanted to remove the gutenprint-locales
> package, as this one was automatically installed to satisfy the
>
> Recommends: gutenprint-locales (>= 5.0.1-1)
>
> field. As the newer, binNMUed package does have an unsatisfiable
>
> Recommends: gutenprint-locales (>= 5.0.1-1+b1)
>
> dependency, aptitude simply removes the gutenprint-locale package, as
> it is not needed anymore. A simple
>
> Recommends: gutenprint-locales (>= ${source:Upstream-Version})
>
> should do the trick.

Yes.  This is already on the TODO list for 5.0.0-2.


Regards,
Roger

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