Hello Sebastian, On Sun, Apr 30, 2023 at 10:17:07PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2023-04-30 18:43:18 [+0200], Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > > > - the backport package of manpages-de and manpages-fr provides a > > > man page for xz. These files conflict with the one provided by > > > xz-utils package. The bpo package and xz-utils in Bookworm have proper > > > Breaks: and Replaces: relation to allow smooth upgrades. > > > This update of xz does not provide such a relation since the current > > > version of manpages-{de|fr} in Bullseye does not provide this > > > man page. As per testing, the Breaks: in manpages-{de|fr} forbids > > > installing of this xz-utils. My understanding is that once these > > > man pages are visible in Bullseye via xz-utils, the bpo packages of > > > manpages-l10n stops creating them as part of the build process. They > > > are not present in testing/ Bookworm version of the package. > > > > No, we need to coordinate about this. You previously considered doing > > a backport and I asked you several if this is still the case; since > > you did not respond, I did not remove the conflicting pages in my > > bullseye packport. > > I added you to Cc: for reason of coordination. I always intended to do > -pu instead of a bpo. I intended to respond earlier but didn't manage to > do it until now. Sorry for that. Thanks for adding me and we are all overloaded some times. > > As bookworm is about to release, I just wonder if that is really > > necessary to introduce the translation files in your backport. I'm all > > about translations, but this is a bit fragile with two backports with > > all the upgrade paths. So hopefully we get this right. > > Stable Bullseye, no bpo. I don't know if this ease the situation regarding the required package relationship. From my side this is just a few lines in my rules file and the appropriate package relationships, the latter are the tricky part to get right. > > If you still feel this is necessary for your users, then please > > contact me and I can perform another upload with the file removed and > > appropriate package relationships. (This implies you tell me the > > version which introduces the files.) > > I'm waiting for the stable team to confirm or deny my request. Once that > is clear we can see how to move forward. Ok. > > Please tell me as well which translated man pages you ship, as there > > are also Danish and Ukrainian ones in my backports. > > > > Please not that I will not perform uploads to bullseye once bookworm > > has been released. > > Only DE and FR made it into the 5.2 series. So we need to deal with those two "only". Thus I'm waiting for further information from your side. Greetings Helge -- Dr. Helge Kreutzmann debian@helgefjell.de Dipl.-Phys. http://www.helgefjell.de/debian.php 64bit GNU powered gpg signed mail preferred Help keep free software "libre": http://www.ffii.de/
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