[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#460508: Bug#460508: Bug#460508: Login provides an man for su which is in manpages-de, too

Daniel Kobras kobras at debian.org
Sun Jan 13 19:33:05 UTC 2008


Hi!

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 03:15:54PM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Daniel Kobras (kobras at debian.org):
> > Why a Conflict? bumping the versioned Replaces: to (<= 0.5-2) should do
> > the trick as well, and doesn't force manpages-de off people's systems.
> > I'll remove the German translation of su(1) in the next upload.
> 
> Any idea when you'll do the upload ? We'd better use a versioned
> Replaces immediately but that requires some commitment from you to
> upload soon enough to avoid a too long time gap where shadow (indeed
> login) will make manpages-de uninstallable.
> 
> In case you think you can't upload in less than very few days, we will
> first use a non versioned Replaces, then a versioned one as soon as
> you have uploaded the fixed package.

With a Replaces (rather than a Conflict), both packages will co-install
just fine. Please use a Replaces: manpages-de (<= 0.5-2), which assumes
that the bug will be fixed in the next upload. I'll try to get that done
within the next days.

Regards,

Daniel.






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