On 2013-05-05 17:55:44 -0700, Geoffrey Thomas wrote: > Since upstream less has reverted this behavior, it seems to me that the > right approach is to revert man-db's workaround, mark it as breaking less > 456 only (since << 456 and >= 457 are then both okay), and upload the new > less upstream release as closing this bug. > > Attached is a debdiff for the change to man-db needed to implement this. > Since you can't have a Breaks field for a range bounded on both sides, I've > just marked it as breaking less 456-1 and 456-1ubuntu1, the only known > packaged versions. I've tested that building this patch works the way that > you'd expect: apt neither installs the new version of less from unstable, > nor attempts to remove it. I've also test-built the new less upstream > release (458; 457 is no longer available) with no other changes to > packaging, and it works fine and `man apt.conf` displays the right thing.
I haven't tested, but I think this is the way to do. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
