> However, in order to make buster → bullseye upgrades work properly, I > think it's necessary to have bsdmainutils depend on bsdextrautils for > at > least one release cycle. Otherwise there may be a point during the > upgrade where col isn't installed and so man will be broken; it's > worth > putting some effort into avoiding that because if the upgrade happens > to > break then users may need to consult man pages to work out what to > do. > The only reliable way I can think of to avoid this kind of problem is > to > have a hard dependency for a while as a transitional measure.
Any idea how this scenario could unfold? I cannot imagine how it could get there. What I will do, though, is add a "Breaks: man-db (<<2.9.3- 1)" to bsdmainutils. Actually this is already in git. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael at Fam-Meskes dot De, Michael at Meskes dot (De|Com|Net|Org) Meskes at (Debian|Postgresql) dot Org Jabber: michael at xmpp dot meskes dot org VfL Borussia! Força Barça! SF 49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux, PostgreSQL
