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

[Vincent Lefevre]

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"?

-- 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