Bug#946046: unison-all should also depend on the old unison version, compatible with Debian 10
On 2019-12-03 12:27:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The purpose of unison-all is the following (see the latest sentence
> in particular):
>
> Description: file synchronization tool (all console versions)
> This is a metapackage that depends on all supported console versions
> of Unison, a file synchronization tool.
> .
> Each of the supported versions uses a different protocol version;
> installing this metapackage ensures the ability to synchronize with
> old systems.
>
> But it currently depends only on unison, which is no longer compatible
> with Debian 10 (buster), i.e. the current Debian/stable.
Unfortunately, the old version I have on my machine is actually
older than buster and not installable in buster. Thus a compatible
version should be created first. Something like that was done in
the past.
BTW, I think that "unison" should just be a metapackage depending
on unison-debian<x>, where <x> is the Debian version (with adapted
paths and executable names). That way, users could install both
Unison from stable and from testing/unstable (unison just depends
on libc6, so that this should be OK in practice). This may make
things easier for unison-all.
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