On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 01:34:04PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2017-06-23 13:26:21)
> > scribus depends on scribus-data and scribus-data recommends scribus. 
> > But both relationships are declared versioned in a way not taking 
> > BinNMUs into account, so that the recommendation must be broken for 
> > the install to succeed when the package has been binNMUed.
> > 
> > Simplest solution is, I guess, to declare the recommendation 
> > unversioned.

But… how did you even found this out?
I don't think there is anything caring about the version restriction of
Recommends.

> No wait: The proper solution is to *drop* the recommendation!
> 
> Pakcage relationships are directional, and the -data package most likely 
> do not really need the main package, only the other way around.

Yeah, possibly.


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