On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 13:37:56 -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 11:37 -0300, David Bremner wrote: > >> Michael Meskes <mes...@debian.org> writes: > >> > >> > > IMO the move of col needs to be rolled back ASAP. And, if it is > >> > > to > >> > > >> > Why? Care to give a reason? > >> > > >> > >> The change broke man-db, as I explained in a previous message. > > > > Oh, that I understand and I'm sorry I didn't notice that issue before, > > but why is rolling back preferable over fixing man-db? > > I don't know what Julien had in mind, presumably worried about other > breakage to surface. Note that obvious fix to man-db will all debhelper > using packages transitively build-depending on bsdextrautils. > I think it's probably best at this point to have bsdmainutils depend on bsdextrautils. That gets rid of the breakage in the place where it originated, and doesn't leave things without a transition path.
Cheers, Julien
