On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:14:36PM -0700, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > In #695459 you added a workaround for the new backslash-escaping > behavior in less 456-1. Upstream less 457 has since reverted this > behavior unless opted in, so I think the sanest thing to do is to > remove this workaround entirely from man-db, declare a Breaks on > just version 456, and put less > >= 457 into testing. > > Attached is a debdiff for a local test build to do this -- see also > my comment in the less bug, #695361, reproduced below. Please > incorporate and upload this change, and also revert the upstream > commit of the workaround; then less 457 or above can be safely > uploaded to close #695361. > > I note that the maintainers of both man-db and less are on the > LowThresholdNmu list, so since this is currently blocking sane > dist-upgrades to testing (I'm caring because I tried to upgrade my > laptop and apt is threatening to remove less), I'm happy to NMU > either or both these packages, if that's easier for you. I'll wait > for comments until tomorrow evening my time, about 24h, before doing > so.
Thanks for the patch. I'd like to review and upload this myself, but it's a public holiday today so I don't know whether I'll quite get to it before your deadline. I will definitely get to it by tomorrow, if you can wait until then. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
