[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#786780: Metastudent and its data (Was: Bug#786780: metastudent has circular Depends on metastudent-data)

[Laszlo Kajan]

Hello Andreas!

On 06/07/15 13:40, Andreas Tille wrote:
> at first thanks for maintaining metastudent in the Debian Med team.  I
> guess you did not yet realised this bug report since there is no
> response in the bug log.  Please note that bugs in the Debian BTS are

I think this was fixed in metastudent-data by changing the Depends on metastudent (>= 2.0.0) to 'Breaks: metastudent (<< 2.0.0)'.
Tobias forgot to close the bug in the changelog, and apparently forgot to email the bug tracker as well.
@Tobi: do you remember those commands and links I sent you about this?

I will let Tobias explain the rest. In short, I think that dependency is a hard 'Depends' on the data package, and not a 'Recommends', because
it is very unlikely that anyone but upstream would be able to generate that data package (@Tobi: correct me if I am wrong), and the software
will be useless without it. The reason for breaking metastudent up to metastudent(-data\d)? is technical: to allow uploads of a small, but more
frequently-changing non-data package, avoiding the need to upload versions of a large data package.

Best regards,
Laszlo

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