Am 24.09.25 um 21:49 schrieb Carles Pina i Estany:
Hi, On 24 Sep 2025 at 12:46:38, Michael Biebl wrote:Am 23.09.25 um 22:42 schrieb Carles Pina i Estany:Subject: rsyslog-mongodb: recommends mongodb-server which is not in unstable Package: rsyslog-mongodb Version: 8.2506.0-4 Severity: minor User: [email protected] Usertags: package-relations Dear maintainer, I see that the package rsyslog-mongodb (version 8.2506.0-4) recommends mongodb-server which is not in unstable. This can be seen in https://packages.debian.org/unstable/rsyslog-mongodb . Search for "Package not available". Should it be dropped or changed?I think the Recommends should be dropped as there is no alternative/successor. The mongodb package was removed from the archive [1] after mongodb upstream had changed its license to SSPL. That said, it's probably still useful to keep the rsyslog-mongodb package as you might want to have a monogdb installed via other means, say a docker container.Since the Debian policy in "2.2.1. The main archive area" [1] says: """ In addition, the packages in main * must not require or recommend a package outside of main for compilation or execution (thus, the package must not declare a Pre-Depends, Depends, Recommends, Build-Depends, Build-Depends-Indep, or Build-Depends-Arch relationship on a non-main package unless that package is only listed as a non-default alternative for a package in main), """ I think that it should not have "Rcommends: mongodb-server". But, since the Debian Policy does not say anything about "Suggests": perhaps it could suggest "mongodb-server" instead of recommending it?
Well, there is no longer a mongodb-server package. Neither in the Debian archive nor via a 3rd party repository. So a Suggests wouldn't really help, or would it?
So, I'm going to drop the "Recommends: mongodb-server" from the rsyslog-mongodb, but I'm also planning to keep the rsyslog-mongodb package, even if mongodb-server is no longer available directly in Debian (due to licensing issues).
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