-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Dear Vincent, thanks for your report.
On 01/04/16 01:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Source: gmp-ecm > Version: 6.4.4+ds-5 > Severity: normal > > One has for libecm0 6.4.4+ds-5: > > Recommends: gmp-ecm (= 6.4.4+ds-5) > > and for libecm1 7.0+ds-1: > > Recommends: gmp-ecm (= 7.0+ds-1) > > i.e. each time with an exact version. > > According to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819636#10 > this is a bad idea. > > BTW, is there any reason why one has a "Recommends"? This a good question. Actually I am asking myself the same question right now for an other packages. I guess I picked up the scheme from an other package. But now, I am realizing that it is not a good idea. I will remove this Recommends fields. Thanks, Jerome > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch/sid > APT prefers unstable-debug > APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, > 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) > > -- no debconf information > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJW/cbEAAoJEIC/w4IMSybj4z4IAMvLlgilGFvpMge94cfSGDcF PFCO9JsnQToDhc5ONKUWAfRWrM1HPxNL4LMkOILjkCpkeZ9S8ii51dURmPFzD+gz En8Tc9wAHnAxCm/KfF3cPP4NKIJYH7yqi70YnoqBZYbsIGo5VSW/Xc82j8w6Ii4V H30QObGuVb+pWg8h82CBm2m47lA8qFroX285PMVs6OGiE5ooxGtVzuoDeP4WGHX6 XOj/yfGTocPGbnmlYei8qD3guN7tQI4nytGJywbPnqvstDebrW+5f9AEiXWYz2Nv RXR+fyz7RNRbwueAuiOjSUDqrWRrF1FTAR+h0LafRvJ441xH4dNZGZ3rt8M87mg= =EBbK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----