Hello Sebastian, On Mon, Jan 09, 2023 at 02:27:35PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2023-01-08 18:32:26 [+0100], Raphaël Halimi wrote: > > 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 > … > > > > 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 ? > > Interresing. manpages-fr and manpages-de from manpages-l10n in bookworm > does not ship $LANG/man1/xz.1.gz but that one in bullseye-bpo does. > This does does not look right.
It is. The man pages always mirror what is present in the
distribution. When the translation of the man pages move to xz (from
manpages-l10n), version build for unstable of manpages-l10n also
removed the translation.
However, the in bullseye-bpo the translation is *not* in xz-utils, and
hence it is shipped by manpages-l10n.
Technically, we treat debian-unstable and debian-backport as if they
were two different distributions (say arch and fedora).
What got lost (and I will investigate this later this week, maybe
tomorrow) are the correct package relations. I have a vague idea, but
I will check. And the next upload (including the one to bpo) will have
the correct ones.
> I could try to upgrade xz in bullseye to a newert version with
> translated man pages but IMHO the testing and bpo version should remain
> unchaned. Did I miss something?
Remove manpages-fr, then continue with the upgrade and after you are
in bookwork, install manpages-fr again.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Greetings
Helge
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