Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-27 Thread Helmut Grohne
Hi Osamu, On Sun, Apr 27, 2025 at 07:01:44PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Since you seem to be very knowlegeable, I have a question: > > Isn't the APT system smart enough to run all preinst scripts of all downloaded > packages? apt is only half the story. In principle, you may perform upgrades wit

Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi Helmut, > > I only see three ways to get around this: > >  * debian-reference-de Pre-Depends debian-reference-common (>= ...) to > >    ensure the correct unpack order. > >  * debian-reference-de Conflicts debian-reference-common (<< ...) to > >    ensure the correct unpack order. > >  * debian

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2025-04-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 serious Bug #1100677 [debian-reference-de,debian-reference-en,debian-reference-es,debian-reference-fr,debian-reference-id,debian-reference-it,debian-reference-ja,debian-reference-pt,debian-reference-pt-br,debian-reference-zh-cn,debian-reference-zh-tw] u

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2025-04-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 important Bug #1100677 [debian-reference-de,debian-reference-en,debian-reference-es,debian-reference-fr,debian-reference-id,debian-reference-it,debian-reference-ja,debian-reference-pt,debian-reference-pt-br,debian-reference-zh-cn,debian-reference-zh-tw]

Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Control: severity -1 important Control: tags -1 pending My latest salsa changes: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debian-reference/-/commit/b6a1085647982f0e62e550338c3fbb6d3cc08d4c As I assessed, since this bug hits user using testing only, this is not serious bug per Policy. Excuse me for my ped

Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi again, (dropping -devel) I see dpkg-maintscript-helper is already used to address Debian Bug report logs - #1058960 dpkg: warning: unable to delete old directory '/usr/share/debian-reference': Directory not empty https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1058960 https://salsa.debian

Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Following up on my previous post. > How about adding simpler versioned depends (no pre-depends) with pre-rm > script? I am talking about tricks using the "dpkg-maintscript-helper symlink_to_dir ..." command. Any thought? Osamu On Thu, 2025-04-17 at 20:40 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, >

Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-17 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, I now see this as a bug. I think this was caused by my post-bookworm change in debian-reference (2.109) on Mon, 18 Dec 2023. If I remember correctly, the intent of this change was to move all HTML/PDF/Plain_Text document to a path under /usr/share/doc/ for better policy compliance. This r

Bug#1100677: Pending autoremoval of debian-reference* packages

2025-04-13 Thread textshell
I belive debian wants to provide its documentation as packages in stable releases. But currently debian-reference is scheduled for auto removal on 2025-04-15 (which this mail bumps a bit into the future). Maybe "nobody" is aware of this? Anyone up to taking a look at this? On Mon, 17 Mar 2025 0