[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1075829: Bug#1075829: Bug#1075829: phosh-core: Depends on squeekboard from experimental

[Guido Günther]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the details!

On Sat, Jul 06, 2024 at 06:37:01AM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 2:25 AM Guido Günther <agx at sigxcpu.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jeremy,
> > On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 06:13:48PM -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > > Package: phosh-core
> > > Version: 40
> > >
> > > phosh-core has Depends: squeekboard (>= 1.38.0) | phosh-osk-stub (>= 0.38.0)
> > >
> > > but squeekboard 1.38 is only in Experimental.
> >
> > Does this cause any practical problems atm? I was hoping we can keep the
> > relationship (in that order) until squeekboard comes back to unstable/testing?
> 
> Well it means that people who have phosh-core installed are also going
> to get phosh-osk-stub installed. If that's fine with you, then I guess
> there isn't much of a bug here now.

As squeekboard dropped out of testing I think that's the reasonable
thing to do atm.

> However, I believe this situation needs to be fixed before the release
> of Debian 13 "Trixie" because it's a violation of Debian Policy §
> 2.2.1 for the default (first) alternative dependency to not be in
> Debian main.

Yes, we plan to fix that for trixie either way (squeekboard upload or
making p-o-s the default).

Cheers,
 -- Guido

> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#the-main-archive-area
> 
> Thank you,
> Jeremy Bícha
> 
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