Bug#819696: gmp-ecm: the library should not recommend an exact version of gmp-ecm

[Jerome BENOIT]

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Dear Vincent, thanks for your report.

On 01/04/16 01:17, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Source: gmp-ecm
> Version: 6.4.4+ds-5
> Severity: normal
> 
> One has for libecm0 6.4.4+ds-5:
> 
> Recommends: gmp-ecm (= 6.4.4+ds-5)
> 
> and for libecm1 7.0+ds-1:
> 
> Recommends: gmp-ecm (= 7.0+ds-1)
> 
> i.e. each time with an exact version.
> 
> According to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819636#10
> this is a bad idea.
> 
> BTW, is there any reason why one has a "Recommends"?

This a good question. Actually I am asking myself the same question right now for an other packages.
I guess I picked up the scheme from an other package. But now, I am realizing that it is not a good idea.
I will remove this Recommends fields.

Thanks,
Jerome

> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: stretch/sid
>   APT prefers unstable-debug
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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