Hi, On 24 Sep 2025 at 21:59:10, Michael Biebl wrote: > 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?
I miss-read your earlier message. Disregard my previous answer based in a miss-reading (I thought that you wanted that rsyslog-mongodb package should "Recommend" mongodb-server because it could be installed outside Debian. This is not what you wrote). > 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). 100% happy for rsyslog-mongodb to be in Debian! (thanks for maintaining it!). Also, I think that should not have "Recommends: mongodb-server" (so, good that you will remove it). Many thanks, -- Carles Pina i Estany https://carles.pina.cat | [email protected] | [email protected]
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