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
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