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Bug 660758

Summary: net-mail/mailbase-1.4 file conflict: has newer version of /usr/share/man/man5/mailcap.5.bz2 as net-mail/metamail-2.7.53.3-r1
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Mark Dominik Bürkle <dominik.buerkle>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Net-Mail Packages <net-mail+disabled>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: jstein
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=251181
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70412
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Description Mark Dominik Bürkle 2018-07-08 22:53:11 UTC
/usr/share/man/man5/mailcap.5.bz2 is in both packages, net-mail/metamail-2.7.53.3-r1 and net-mail/mailbase-1.4.

net-mail/mailbase-1.4 version has four changes against the version in net-mail/metamail-2...:

- the header line
  mailbase: "MAILCAP(5) File Formats Manual MAILCAP(5)"
  metamail: "MAILCAP(4) Kernel Interfaces Manual MAILCAP(4)"

- in the text body
  mailbase: Finally, if the command contains "\%", those two characters will be replaced by a single % character.
  metamail: Finally, if the command contains "", those two characters will be replaced by a % character.

- mailbase: thus allowing the calling program (e.g. metamail) to tell the called program
  metamail: thus allowing th3e calling program (e.g. metamail) to tell the called  program

- in the "references" section
  mailbase: SEE ALSO
       run-mailcap(1), mailcap.order(5), update-mime(8)
       RFC 1524 (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1524>)
  metamail: SEE ALSO
       metamail(1)

I haven't seen any other differences in the rendered versions of the man pages.

To reproduce:
- emerge -1 metamail '<net-mail/mailbase-1.4'
- emerge -1 mailbase # will fail, see next step
- compare output of
  - man -M $PORTAGE_TMPDIR/portage/net-mail/mailbase-1.4/image/usr/share/man mailcap
  - man mailcap

Please remove mailcap.5.bz2 from net-mail/metamail to allow an update of net-mail/mailbase without removing /usr/share/man/man5/mailcap.5.bz2 ...

Kind regards,
Dominik
Comment 1 Mark Dominik Bürkle 2018-07-08 22:56:48 UTC
Problem exists since some weeks already.
Comment 2 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev 2018-07-23 06:29:55 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 656976 ***