Re: [pve-devel] [PATCH pve-widget-toolkit] Changed 'kr' to 'ko' in language list

["Fabian Grünbichler" <f.gruenbichler@proxmox.com>]

> Thomas Lamprecht <t.lamprecht@proxmox.com> hat am 26.03.2023 16:51 CEST geschrieben:
> 
> In widget-toolkit we do not depend on any i18n package as widget-toolkit is
> also used in more than one project; adding an OR'd `pve-i18n | pmg-i18n |
> pbs-i18n` could work but is a bit of a PITA as some tools will use the first
> one here (e.g.  debootstrap) if one isn't careful.  So, we could instead add a
> virtual proxmox-widget-toolkit-i18n package that all pmg/pve/pbs- i18n ones
> provide as $binary:version and make proxmox-widget-toolkit depend on that;
> would be IMO slightly cleaner.

IIRC having just a Depends: on a virtually-provided package provided by more than one actual package is even worse with regards to tooling support (hence the Debian policy of always depending on "actual-package | virtual-package", like "initramfs-tools (>= 0.120+deb8u2) | linux-initramfs-tool", or "uniquely-provided-virtual-package | virtual-package", like "default-mta | mail-transport-agent" to express a preference, and the corresponding behaviour in debootstrap and buildd to only look at the first arm of an ORed dependency).

Also, Provides/virtual packages are not really a good fit for this problem, since the packages don't provide the same thing and proxmox-widget-toolkit also cannot use them interchangeably (i.e., on PVE having pmg-i18n installed is a nop and doesn't help at all, but it would satisfy the dependency).

I think in this case the solution would be to add Breaks to both/all involved packages for the old version (so that no combination of new+old can be installed) and add bumped versioned dependencies higher up the stack (e.g., pve-manager) to force the upgrade - if we want to have this transition, that is ;)