recommends a package that has been removed

[Chris Guiver]

** Background

This is raised because of a support request https://askubuntu.com/questions/1317116/kup-backup-failure
(note: it was closed as off-topic; so you'll need a certain rep on askubu in order to view it)

** Issue - recommends rule for no-longer-available-package

https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/kup-backup shows

"Recommends: bup : Package not available"

(removed as it relied on python2.7)

Sorry I'm unsure if there are any consequences, but maybe the recommends rule needs to be deleted (could also be it was left there because it makes it easier to re-introduce `bup` if it's ported to python3), OR

** Possibly filed against wrong package; `bup`?

The FIX required maybe be `bup` needs to be packaged; and this report should thus be changed to be against `bup` itself; as https://github.com/bup/bup says it requires python3.7 or later. Maybe the `bup` package needs to be updated (and filing should be on debian?)

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for reporting.

Marking confirmed based on package information [1].

It looks like bup has been ported to python3 and reintroduced in newer Ubuntu releases [2], however it fails to build for most architectures [3]. So it looks like once those build failures are sorted out, it should be available again and kup-backup might not need any changes.

[1] https://packages.ubuntu.com/hirsute/kup-backup
[2] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bup
[3] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bup/0.32-3build1