Quoting Paul Gevers (2020-09-17 10:22:59) > Hi Jonas, > > On 17-09-2020 10:12, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > Ghostscript package uses dh_linktree, which has this to say: > ^^^^^^^^^^^ answers my question. > > >> Since symlink trees are created statically at build-time, they are not > >> very future-proof and have a risk to miss some files introduced by a > >> newer version of the package providing the file tree which is > >> duplicated. That's why the generated dependencies generally ensure > >> that the same upstream version be used at run-time than at build-time. > > > > In my understanding, ghostscript _could_ become broken _if_ a newer font > > package changes paths: Ghostscript wuold then ship with dangling > > symlinks (which might in itself be an RC-level issue) and this would > > cause some functionality of the ghostscript package to fail. > > > > Does that answer your question? > > So, because of the way dh_linktree works, every reverse dependency needs > to be rebuild. Luckily, we have transition trackers for those: > > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-upperlimit-fonts-urw-base35.html > > And the tracker/qa package of fonts-urw-base35 mentions it too: > Issues preventing migration: > migrating fonts-urw-base35/20200910-1/amd64 to testing makes > libgs9-common/9.52.1~dfsg-1/amd64 uninstallable > migrating fonts-urw-base35/20200910-1/i386 to testing makes > libgs9-common/9.52.1~dfsg-1/i386 uninstallable > > I'll binNMU shortly. Arrgh - I realixed only now that the issue is in a arch-all package. Sorry for the fuss - I will need to do a propoer release after all. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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