Two cents.
Promoting the equivs package to solve such a situation is also something to
consider, no?
It happens to me many times with some unofficial packages.
Currently, I did not find equivs anywhere in the Debian Wiki where it could
be useful to cite regarding unofficial packages or repositories. Listing
some old (removed) «classic» transitional packages there could help then
maybe, any opinion?
Regards,
Patrice
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 12:32:19 + Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2023 at 12:54:54 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
> > Please drop the package libpango1.0-0 which was transitional for
> > several releases.
>
> Thanks for the reminder. We tried removing that package once already,
> but had to revert its removal during the bullseye cycle because it broke
> a lot of third-party .debs (see #958035, #956520, #959978, #958477).
>
> Now that bullseye (and bookworm) has been released with a libpango1.0-0
> whose versioned dependencies are all of the form (>= x) rather than (= x),
> allowing users to keep the bullseye or bookworm version of libpango1.0-0
> installed if they need it, we can have another try at this.
>
> smcv
>
>
