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

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022, Mark Hindley wrote:

> > The only solution I can imagine is the Alternatives system, so we
> > identify which man pages conflict and both manpages-l10n and sysvinit
> > establish alternatives for those translations.
> 
> 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.

The scenario would be:

• manpages-de and sysvinit-core ship the same files
• sysvinit-core Replaces: manpages-de (but NOT the other way around)

On deinstalling sysvinit-core, the files from manpages-de would not
be reinstated (which they would with dpkg-divert, which is the one
I’d have considered instead). For many packages, this is unattractive.

Realistically, people who install both on Debian *now* (that is, sid
or bookworm+) will not switch to systemd _afterwards_ so I estimate
that we can go with a Replaces-based solution.

If not dpkg-divert IMHO is the way to go.

bye,
//mirabilos
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