Hello Baptiste,
Baptiste Jammet <bapti...@lakpa.lautre.net> schrieb am Mi., 26. Feb. 2020,
19:54:
> Hi,
>
> Dixit Mario Blättermann, le 25/02/2020 :
>
> >> D'autres questions techniques :
> >> - est ce que le nouveau paquet sera identifié « replace:
> >> manpages-fr{,-extra} » ?
> >> - il faudra penser à faire supprimer les paquets
> >> manpages-fr{,-extra}, ou les remplacer par des factices qui
> >> dépendent du nouveau paquet ?
> >
> >Indeed, the upcoming v4.0 of manpages-l10n will replace manpages-fr,
> >manpages-fr-dev and manpages-fr-extra (and moreover: manpages-de,
> >manpages-de-dev, manpages-pl and manpages-pl-dev).
> >
> >I don't know how this will be handled regarding Debian's packaging and
> >upgrading policies - I'm using Archlinux. But I'm quite sure the new
> >manpages-fr will provide manpages-fr-extra virtually, because we don't
> >distinguish anymore between "normal" and somewhat "extra" man pages.
> >CC'ing Tobias Quathamer, he is the maintainer of the current
> >manpages-de package; maybe he can better explain the upgrade process.
>
> (Keeping Tobias in Cc)
> I think the new manpages-l10n-fr should have something like
> replace: manpages-fr, manpages-fr-extra, manpages-fr-dev
> (or maybe provide: ?)
> Then, maybe a new upload of these 3 olds to change them as leaf
> packages depending on manpages-l10n-fr ?
>
> Moreover, it could then be added as depends in task-l10n-fr (to be
> automatically installed in new install).
>
I don't know what Tobias plans for the packaging. But I assume there won't
be any binary packages named manpages-l10n-*. The easiest way to get a
proper upgrade path and to avoid confusing the users would be to split the
source package manpages-l10n into binary packages named manpages-de,
manpages-fr, manpages-pl and so on. Generally I would recommend this way of
packaging, also for other distributions.
And moreover, in that case nothing needs to be changed regarding the
task-l10n-fr dependency, because manpages-fr still exist as such; only
manpages-fr-extra should then appear as a "provides" of manpages-fr.
Best Regards,
Mario
>
