On 2019-10-07 06:29 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Package: elinks-data
> Version: 0.13~20190125-4
> Severity: important
>
> elinks-data recommends elinks, versioned.
>
> This breaks when elinks gets a binNMU.
Indeed, I had to persuade aptitude to upgrade elinks anyway and thus get
rid of libperl5.28 and perl-modules-5.28 as part of the perl 5.30
transition. I don't recall getting hit by this in previous perl
transitions, but the bogus Recommends has apparently been there since the
introduction of elinks-data in version 0.11.3-1, released January 2008.
> Arguably, elinks-data should not declare such relationship at all:
> The relationship is drectional - it is elinks that need elinks-data, not
> the other way around.
>
> I therefore recommend to simply drop the recommendation.
Would be my recommendation as well, alternatively it could be relaxed to
unversioned, since elinks already has a strict versioned dependency on
elinks-data for ages.
Cheers,
Sven
