Bug#956520: libpango-1.0-0: The new package breaks certain packages like dropbox or Minecraft-launcher

[Christian Lützenkirchen]

On 12/04/2020 15:40, Simon McVittie wrote:
> libpango1.0-0 was already a transitional package, since 2013 (a few days
> more than 7 years ago). Transitional packages are normally removed in the
> next stable release after they become transitional, so libpango1.0-0 was
> already several years overdue for removal. Its removal was requested in
> #940744 and #948462.
>
> If libpango1.0-0 really needs to come back, it should probably be taken
> over by the pangox-compat source package, so that it "naturally" goes away
> when libpangox-1.0-0 does.


Hello,

thanks for the clarification. Though apt is having trouble to configure
these packages - the within delivered binaries seem to work fine. It is
probably up to Dropbox and Mojang etc. to alter their deb packages to
depend on libpango-1.0-0 instead.

For the meantime I will probably hack those packages myself or create a
temporary transitional package in order to prevent apt from removing
Dropbox every morning when I need to do the daily apt upgrade ;-) .
In case some of you have a better work around I'd love to hear it.

Additionally I will try to open a ticket at Dropbox and Minecraft
support for a tiny change request.


Best regards

Chris