On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 at 10:35:44 +0100, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
> please drop the bind9utils and dnsutils as they are also listed as
> virtual package by having Provides: in the replacement packages.
bind9-utils Provides bind9utils, but bind9-dnsutils doesn't appear to
have a Provides on dnsutils, resulting in various packages needing to be
updated before the transitional dnsutils package can be removed.
> You can also drop the Provides: once #1094158 is fixed.
There are other packages with runtime dependencies on dnsutils, for example
ikiwiki-hosting (#1094946).
Would there be any ongoing cost to adding a "Provides: dnsutils" to
bind9-dnsutils? It seems to me that adding that, either before removing
the "real" dnsutils transitional package or at the same time, would avoid
a need for unnecessary churn elsewhere in Debian.
smcv
