On 14/03/2020 09.51, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Maybe split it out to a new libreoffice-dev-gui package or somesuch? (That > would need NEW though, > and thus will only be done with the 7.0 packages)? But a tiny package just > for this tool... (that's why > it was consumed in the -dev package.) I'd go the libreoffice-gui-dev way, it will avoid this kind of confusion in the future. Postponing to 7 (or any other reason to go through NEW) is fine.
> Or Recommends: libreoffice-core, though that probably wouldn't be honoured by > sbuild.... Yep, Recommends is not sufficient. Since you already have a gengal wrapper script, you could check for libreoffice-core being installed and error out with "please install libreoffice-core instead of libreoffice-core-nogui to use this tool" instead of failing with a weird missing symbol. Andreas