Package: xz-utils
Version: 5.4.0-0.1
Dear developer,
I'm not sure if it's the right place to report the bug since it involves
a conflict with a backport.
Today I tried to upgrade a Bullseye laptop to Bookworm.
The upgrade crashed with xz-utils trying to overwrite
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/xz.1.gz which belonged to manpages-fr from
backports (4.16.0-3~bpo11+1).
After running dpkg --force-overwrite (it's the only way I know of in
such situations), a whole bunch of manual pages were overwritten :
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/xz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/xzdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/xzless.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/xzmore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/lzcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/lzcmp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/lzdiff.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/lzless.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/lzma.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/lzmore.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/unlzma.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/unxz.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/xzcat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/xzcmp.1.gz
I don't see a clean solution to ensure a smooth upgrade for people who
have installed this backport. Maybe coordinate with manpages-fr
maintainer and release updated backports for both packages, before
Bookworm is released ?
Regards,
--
Raphaël Halimi
