Description of problem: m17n-contrib cannot be installed in Mageia as it conflicts with m17n-db, as it contains several files which are already provided by m17n-db (I guess those are the same files but didn't check). I think m17n-contrib package should be fixed as anyway it requires m17n-db.
Ah yes m17n-db should obsolete old m17n-contrib as it is his replacement.
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
$ urpmq --whatrequires m17n-db m17n-contrib *** [-recursive adds a few things] $ urpmq --requires m17n-db gawk $ urpmq --whatrequires m17n-contrib [nothing] [also with -recursive] $ urpmq --requires m17n-contrib gawk m17n-db[>= 1.5.0] *** as Aiswarya noted. > m17n-contrib cannot be installed in Mageia as it conflicts with m17n-db > m17n-db should obsolete old m17n-contrib as it is his replacement It looks as if if you have m17n-db, you do not need m17n-contrib. How did you (Aiswarya) arrive at wanting to install both? This seems to need packaging correction. Assigning globally as these pkgs have no specific maintainer, and David G is already involved & CC'd (thanks).
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
Sorry I was confused by the Swanalekha Malayalam keyboard installation tutorial (https://swanalekha.smc.org.in/). Then I found out that first I need to set up ibus(https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Input_methods#ibus) before I can use it. Thank you.
should be fixed with m17n-db-1.8.0-2.1.mga7 in Core/Updates_testing repo! Please test.
Tested. Indeed it is better. You can close the bug as fixed. Thank you.
Assigning to QA, Advisory: ======================== There's a conflicting files issue if you want/try to install m17n-contrib on mga7. It conflict between m17n-contrib and m17n-db as all m17n-contrib files were merged into m17n-db package. So this update fixes this issue obsoleting old m17n-contrib package. ======================== Packages in 7/core/updates_testing: ======================== m17n-db-1.8.0-2.1.mga7.noarch.rpm m17n-db-devel-1.8.0-2.1.mga7.noarch.rpm Source RPM: ======================== m17n-db-1.8.0-2.1.mga7.src.rpm
Assignee: pkg-bugs => qa-bugs
Mageia 7, x86_64 Confirmed the issue then updated the packages. $ rpm -qa | grep m17n m17n-db-devel-1.8.0-2.1.mga7 m17n-db-1.8.0-2.1.mga7 lib64m17n-lib0-1.8.0-2.mga7 $ urpmq --whatrequires-recursive m17n-db ibus-m17n m17n-contrib m17n-db m17n-db-devel m17n-lib scim-m17n uim uim-chewing uim-gtk uim-gtk3 uim-qt4 uim-qt5 Installed uim-gtk successfully, which pulled in m17n-lib and some GNU free fonts. Note that m17n-lib had already been installed. $ m17n-db /usr/share/m17n That directory contains a large number of files concerned with fonts. Quote from https://www.nongnu.org/m17n/ The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text. Looks like testing it needs an expert. It looks complete so passing this as OK for 64-bits.
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OKCC: (none) => tarazed25
Keywords: (none) => advisory, validated_updateCC: (none) => tmb, sysadmin-bugs
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2019-0153.html
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED