Hi Jonas,
On 17-09-2020 10:12, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Ghostscript package uses dh_linktree, which has this to say:
^^^^^^^^^^^ answers my question.>> Since symlink trees are created statically at build-time, they are not >> very future-proof and have a risk to miss some files introduced by a >> newer version of the package providing the file tree which is >> duplicated. That's why the generated dependencies generally ensure >> that the same upstream version be used at run-time than at build-time. > > In my understanding, ghostscript _could_ become broken _if_ a newer font > package changes paths: Ghostscript wuold then ship with dangling > symlinks (which might in itself be an RC-level issue) and this would > cause some functionality of the ghostscript package to fail. > > Does that answer your question? So, because of the way dh_linktree works, every reverse dependency needs to be rebuild. Luckily, we have transition trackers for those: https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-upperlimit-fonts-urw-base35.html And the tracker/qa package of fonts-urw-base35 mentions it too: Issues preventing migration: migrating fonts-urw-base35/20200910-1/amd64 to testing makes libgs9-common/9.52.1~dfsg-1/amd64 uninstallable migrating fonts-urw-base35/20200910-1/i386 to testing makes libgs9-common/9.52.1~dfsg-1/i386 uninstallable I'll binNMU shortly. Paul
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