On 22/06/20 at 21:35 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Mon, 2020-06-22 at 20:57 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 19:46:21 +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > > > > Depending on bsdmainutils to get col et al seems entirely right, > > > > it's > > > > been right forever, there doesn't seem to be a reason to break > > > > that > > > > both > > > > for dependent packages and for end users. Especially not without > > > > notice. > > > > > > There is no point arguing against your "do not change anything" > > > attitude. > > > > > I'm not saying don't change anything, I'm saying don't break stuff > > for > > users for no reason. > > You are saying the reason is "it's been right forever". > > The reason for this move is moving from the old and heavily patched BSD > source to the more up-to-date GNU version.
I did a partial archive rebuild reverting to the version of bsdmainutils with 'col' and others. It seems that the list of affected packages from #963327 is complete with the exception of 'notmuch'. A good plan would probably be to fix man-db, and look at what are the remaining failures after that. Lucas
