[debian-devel:13980] Re: manpages-ja override disparity

[Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>]

From: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org>
Subject: manpages-ja override disparity
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:00:08 -0400

> There are disparities between your recently installed upload and the
> override file for the following file(s):
> 
> manpages-ja_0.4.0.0.20010315-2_all.deb: priority is overridden from optional to extra.
> 
> Either the package or the override file is incorrect.  If you think
> the override is correct and the package wrong please fix the package
> so that this disparity is fixed in the next upload.  If you feel the
> override is incorrect then please reply to this mail and explain why.

Once manpages-ja was "optional" as well as other translated
manpages. But on potato systems we had to use man-db with jgroff (not
groff) to see Japanese manpages correctly. Since groff was "important"
and jgroff conflicted with it, jgroff had to be "extra".

It was a great trouble to Japanese users to install jgroff instead of
groff. So I added dependency on jgroff to manpages-ja so that jgroff
would be installed automagically if they want Japanese manpages
(apparently it was a policy violation though) and asked ftpmaster to
edit override so that manpages-ja temporarily (hopefully before woody
release) become "extra" too.

Anyway on woody+ systems we don't need jgroff (Bug#89369) and I've
dropped dependency on it from manpages-ja. So now manpages-ja can be
reverted to "optional".

Thanks,
-- 
Keita Maehara <maehara@debian.org>