On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 07:35:58AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 02:38:54AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The package libreoffice-sdbc-firebird is no longer built. > > So, libreoffice-base-drivers should no longer recommend it > > Yeah, didn't do that because it'll be back in 5.3 anyways. > > > (which can partially block upgrades due to the broken > > Recommends). > > Don't buy that. How do unavailable Recommends: block upgrades?
Just tried it: - cowbuilder login to a testing. - removed the pbuilder config saying recommends shouldn't be installed per default - apt install libreoffice (installs also libreoffice-sdbc-firebird) - testing -> unstable in sources.list - apt update && apt dist-upgrade # apt dist-upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: firebird2.5-common firebird2.5-common-doc firebird2.5-server-common firebird3.0-common firebird3.0-common-doc libfbclient2 libfbembed2.5 libtommath1 Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: libreoffice-sdbc-firebird The following packages will be upgraded: binutils fonts-opensymbol libapparmor1 libc-bin libc-dev-bin libc6 libc6-dev libdatrie1 libelf1 libgnutls30 libhyphen0 libjcommon-java libjpeg62-turbo libnspr4 libreoffice libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer libreoffice-base libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-base-drivers libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-impress libreoffice-java-common libreoffice-librelogo libreoffice-math libreoffice-nlpsolver libreoffice-ogltrans libreoffice-pdfimport libreoffice-report-builder libreoffice-report-builder-bin libreoffice-script-provider-bsh libreoffice-script-provider-js libreoffice-script-provider-python libreoffice-sdbc-hsqldb libreoffice-sdbc-postgresql libreoffice-style-galaxy libreoffice-wiki-publisher libreoffice-writer libsqlite3-0 libthai-data libthai0 libwps-0.4-4 lsb-base multiarch-support python3-uno uno-libs3 ure 49 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 97.6 MB/97.7 MB of archives. After this operation, 345 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Works? Regards, Rene