Hi, On 2016-08-08 11:36:27 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:19:15AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2016-08-08 07:08:04 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 12:58:45AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > > Source: libreoffice > > > > Version: 1:5.2.0-1 > > > > Severity: grave > > > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > > > No, it doesn't make the whole LO unusable. Even if it was completely gone. > > > > You're wrong. By package, it means here "libreoffice-gtk", which is > > completely unusable when one wants to install it as no longer there. > > A package which is supposed to be gone can't be "unusable" because it's ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > not supposed to be used. Maybe you meant serious if you meant it being > "uninstallable"?
The point is that "supposed to be gone" is what *you* (as a maintainer of libreoffice) know. For the user who looks at the libreoffice package description and/or had libreoffice-gtk already installed, libreoffice-gtk should still be there as a real package. > > is still in stable, thus will not be gone before long (and even users > > under Debian/stable may still track oldstable for some reasons). And > > even if it is gone, libreoffice-gtk won't be installable since it is > > a virtual package, and things like "apt install" on a virtual package > > don't work[*]. You need to say what the real packages are, either say > > No, it does. > When there's only one provider it will choose that one provider. > See e.g. [1] OK, I thought that the goal of the rename was that libreoffice-gtk3 would provide libreoffice-gtk too. > (Right now not because the "real" one does still exist and apt prefers that.) But as I've said, the real -gtk will still be in stable and won't be removed. Or what do you mean by 'the "real" one does still exist'? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)