Bug#958035: libpango1.0-0 transitional package must be provided without tight version

[Drew Parsons]

On 2020-04-18 02:37, Simon McVittie wrote:
...
> Minecraft is another proprietary package with the same issue: #956520
> (which also mentions dropbox).

Interesting. Strange that these 3rd party providers provide a thing, but 
then fail to check if it's actually still working or up-to-date.

> flashplugin-nonfree doesn't seem to have worked correctly since 2017, 
> the
> plugin it installs is full of known security vulnerabilities, and, 
> again,
> browsers have dropped NPAPI support, so I can't say I feel particularly
> guilty about breaking that one.

True on its own, it no longer pulls latest versions from Adobe. But the 
update-flashplugin-nonfree script has been useful for applying latest 
versions downloaded manually from adobe.com, after hacking the script to 
handle a local tarball file (the patch from 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=851066#69 ).  Maybe I 
should nmu flashplugin-nonfree to fix some things.


> One possibility is to bring back the transitional package for one more
> release cycle (ugh), give it (>=) rather than (=) dependencies on 
> libraries
> from the same source package like you suggested, but downgrade the 
> Depends
> on libpangox-1.0-0 to Recommends or Suggests? That's not *strictly* 
> correct,
> but maybe close enough?


Certainly good enough for me.  Your call on libpangox-1.0-0 :)

Drew