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<div>Two cents.</div><div>Promoting the equivs package to solve such a situation is also something to consider, no?</div><div>It happens to me many times with some unofficial packages.</div><div>Currently, I did not find equivs anywhere in the Debian Wiki where it could be useful to cite regarding unofficial packages or repositories. Listing some old (removed) «classic» transitional packages there could help then maybe, any opinion?<br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Patrice<br></div><div><br></div><div>
On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 12:32:19 +0000 Simon McVittie <<a href="mailto:smcv@debian.org" target="_blank">smcv@debian.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Thu, 02 Nov 2023 at 12:54:54 +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:<br>
> > Please drop the package libpango1.0-0 which was transitional for<br>
> > several releases.<br>
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> Thanks for the reminder. We tried removing that package once already,<br>
> but had to revert its removal during the bullseye cycle because it broke<br>
> a lot of third-party .debs (see #958035, #956520, #959978, #958477).<br>
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> Now that bullseye (and bookworm) has been released with a libpango1.0-0<br>
> whose versioned dependencies are all of the form (>= x) rather than (= x),<br>
> allowing users to keep the bullseye or bookworm version of libpango1.0-0<br>
> installed if they need it, we can have another try at this.<br>
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> smcv<br>
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