Hi everyone, I've added a transitional package from exe-thumbnailer -> icoextract-thumbnailer. The code is at https://salsa.debian.org/jlu-guest/icoextract since I seem to be locked out of the wine-team repo again... (this might be my biggest gripe with Salsa in general, so much weirdness with permissions[1] :( ) remote: GitLab: You are not allowed to push code to protected branches on this project. To salsa.debian.org:wine-team/icoextract.git ! [remote rejected] debian/master -> debian/master (pre-receive hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'git@salsa.debian.org:wine-team/icoextract.git' The transitional package has version 1~icoextract-$(DEB_VERSION) using the dh_gencontrol override. It depends on icoextract-thumbnailer, while icoextract-thumbnailer has the following: Breaks: exe-thumbnailer (<< 1~) Replaces: exe-thumbnailer (<< 1~) Provides: exe-thumbnailer Best, James [1]: Side note: I've had occasions where GitLab won't let me delete old branches from the website, but doing so via git works fine!? On 2019-12-23 12:03 p.m., Stephen Kitt wrote: > Hi Jens, hi James, > > On Mon, 23 Dec 2019 19:23:48 +0100, Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 22.12.19 22:04, James Lu wrote: >>> I've since prepared Debian packaging for the project, tentatively placed >>> at https://salsa.debian.org/jlu-guest/icoextract. (I couldn't push to >>> wine-team/icoextract since I don't have permissions to set a default >>> branch?) >> >> I recently had the same problem, fortunately I now have the relevant >> rights. So I pushed your repo to wine-team. > > Thanks! > >>> With all this in mind, I'm inclined to deprecate the existing >>> exe-thumbnailer unless someone else wants to work on it. However, since >>> icoextract is new & has a lower version (0.1.0) than exe-thumbnailer, >>> I'm not exactly sure how to set up a transitional package. Any advice on >>> this would be appreciated! >> >> It's been a few years since I had a deep look into this. Generally the >> version of a binary package doesn't need to be the same as its source >> package version (otherwise, since you're upstream, I'd just bump the >> version of icoextract). >> >> >> Nowadays versioned provides should work (but you need to test it). Just >> add something like this to src:icoextract's d/control: >> >> Package: icoextract >> Provides: exe-thumbnailer (= 0.10.1-2) > > I don’t think this will ensure the transition: there’s nothing that depends > on icoextract, so previous users of exe-thumbnailer will keep that package. > > [...] >> If this doesn't work, you'd have to add a separate (empty) transitional >> package: >> >> Package: exe-thumbnailer >> >> I think the binary package version can be set in d/rules. > > I think this is the best solution. The package version can be set using > dpkg-gencontrol, or its wrapper dh_gencontrol, with the -v option (to set the > version) and the -p option (to specify which package is affected). > > Regards, > > Stephen >
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