Dear Maintainer,

odbc-mdbtools is missing a dependency on the binary package odbcinst.

Your postinst and prerm maintscripts call odbcinst to register/deregister the
driver, but this will fail if odbcinst is not installed.

odbcinst is currently a dependency of odbcinst1debian2, but that package is now
transitional and will be removed once Bookworm has been released.

Please add a direct dependency on odbcinst.

Thank you

I just came across this bug whilst testing -dev packages for ABI
changes. This bug makes the package uninstallable and so (as it has
been like this for 14 months) I am bumping the bug severity to serious.

Missing dependencies violates a 'must' in policy: section 3.5 "Every
package must specify the dependency information about other packages
that are required for the first to work correctly."

I'll do an NMU when I get a mo (next week hopefully) if the maintainer
doesn't beat me to it, unless someone knows of a good reason why
not. This fix should be accepted for a freeze exception, I think.

The attached patch is confirmed as fixing the problem.

Wookey

I have uploaded a NMU to fix this. The change is also available in the git repository.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mdbtools, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1001144@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated mdbtools package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2023 14:53:52 +0200
Source: mdbtools
Architecture: source
Version: 1.0.0+dfsg-1.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Jean-Michel Vourgère <nirgal@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 1001144
Changes:
 mdbtools (1.0.0+dfsg-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Wookey ]
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Add dependency on obdcinst for odbc-mdbtools. (Closes:#1001144)
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