Hi Simon, * Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> [2025-02-11 10:44]:
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.
Looks like that was dropped recently: https://salsa.debian.org/dns-team/bind9/-/commit/583f1cf10c8d782a828ce932e1821dfb3cc06bf4#58ef006ab62b83b4bec5d81fe5b32c3b4c2d1cc2_176_163
You can also drop the Provides: once #1094158 is fixed.There are other packages with runtime dependencies on dnsutils, for example ikiwiki-hosting (#1094946).
Right, not sure why I thought that was the only one.
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.
I agree with Chris that it is probably easier to just fox those downstream packages now.
Cheers Jochen
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