Control: tags -1 buster-ignore Hi,
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 03:14:46PM +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > As documented in #894757, gimp and mypaint not being coïnstallable is > clearly RC. > > I’ve just poked around: it’s *only* the libmypaint.mo files that > are affected, that is, the translation files of the *library*. > Does GIMP use them at all? If not, they likely can be dropped from > GIMP’s fork of the library. > > Otherwise, perhaps a solution can be made where the libmypaint.mo > files are moved into a separate package and depended on by both > libmypaint-common and mypaint-data, shipping a superset, if needed. > > A quick hack would be a Replaces. (Downside is, when the package > carrying the Replaces is removed the other needs a reinstall to > restore its version of the files.) > > Also consider that having both installable, but one lacking some > translations, might be preferable over not being able to install > both. > > Anyway, the current situation is somewhat untenable for a release, > and a coworker justifiedly complains about it… I don't think this can be fixed for buster, so I'm tagging this -ignore. Unfortunately, this (once again) shows that "Short-term the breakage isn't that bad" (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=894757#50) usually isn't the case. This should never have migrated to testing... Ivo
