id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component resolution keywords cc fix_version see_also 373 figure out how to tell apt to reattempt to satisfy recommendations geofft "If a recommendation isn't satsifiable when a package is installed, as far as I know, apt never reattempts to satisfy the recommendation. We should figure out how to make it do so, so that recommendations for uninstallable/unavailable packages in e.g. debathena-thirdparty get pulled in automatically when upstream fixes their problems, without us having to move that package to a dependency. This is important if we want to at least halfway attempt to make debathena-thirdparty useful on multiple releases or even arches; there will be packages that we cannot make hard dependencies of -thirdparty. This is also important if we want all of debathena-thirdparty to be recommendations: see also #372." enhancement new low The Distant Future --