[Pkg-systemd-maintainers] Can we depend/recommend on reportbug ≥ 6.5.0?

[Michael Stapelberg]

Hi,

reportbug 6.5.0 landed in unstable recently and includes my patch which
enables bugscripts to attach files, so that we no longer need to spam
the entire bug report’s body with the “systemctl dump” output.

Now, I’ll start working on a commit soon to take advantage of that, but
I wonder what we should do with regards to the question in the subject?

I suppose adding a hard dependency on reportbug is not a good idea since
it might pull in that package on embedded systems. But what about a
Recommends: reportbug (>= 6.5.0)? Will that lead to the package getting
upgraded, even when the user has Install-Recommends turned off?
Essentially, what I’m trying to achieve is that _if_ the user has
reportbug installed, it should be upgraded to at least version 6.5.0
when installing a newer systemd version :).

Or do you feel like it’s not a big deal and we should just live with the
risk of getting a handful of bugreports where people have a newer
systemd package but an older reportbug (i.e. a partially upgraded
system) and hence the “systemctl dump” output will be missing and
control instructions for reportbug will be visible instead?

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Best regards,
Michael