On 10/07/2014 at 04:51 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 07 oct 14, 11:15:43, The Wanderer wrote: > >> I suspect that the GNOME package maintainers simply haven't taken >> the existence of libreoffice4.2 packages into account in their >> package dependencies. Ordinarily I'd suggest filing a bug report >> asking them to correct that, but at this late date (with >> libreoffice4.2 not existing in testing, and the jessie freeze less >> than a month away), I doubt there's any chance of such a change >> being made. > > Fixing dependencies of a meta-package would probably qualify even for > a freeze exception (if it came to that), but I don't see any reason > for the Debian Gnome package maintainers to adjust their packages to > account for non-Debian packages.
Oh. I hadn't realized that libreoffice4.2 wasn't a Debian package - I thought it was just one of those things that crop up sometimes to allow multiple versions to be available, which are put in for one release but not kept in for the next one. Yes, if it's not a package in Debian per se, then there's no reason why the GNOME package maintainers would or should adjust dependencies to account for it. If you want GNOME and libreoffice4.2, you'll need to get the GNOME-related packages by some other means than the 'gnome' metapackage. (And there's no absolute guarantee you won't encounter other dependency conflicts somewhere along the way.) -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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