Bug#1009915: sysvinit: Please align with manpages-l10n and afterwards activate man page translations

Mark Hindley leepen at debian.org
Fri Apr 22 09:16:40 BST 2022


Thorsten,

Thanks for your input, as always.

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 08:38:57PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > The other possibility might be dpkg-diverts. Perhaps that depends on how many
> > conflicts there actually are/will be. I will try to quantify that more
> > accurately.
> 
> Or Replaces: but that has downsides on deinstallation.

Yes. And I am unclear how dpkg would behave if sysvinit-core was installed
Replacing the manpages-l10n versions but then manpages-l10n was upgraded.

dpkg-divert seems preferable to me.

Thanks

Mark



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