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,--,,,,,