Bug#1035310: bullseye-pu: package xz-utils/5.2.11-0~deb11u1
On 2023-04-30 18:43:18 [+0200], Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> Hello Sebastian,
Hi Helge,
> > - 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> 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.
> Greetings
>
> Helge
Sebastian
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