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GNOME-2 transition plan



Hello all,

I am still not sure whether we found the best way to do
the GNOME-2 transition.  I posted a similar question some
days ago, but got no answers.  So here it is again:

As far as I understand it, we seem to agree that currently
we should have

    package   - GNOME 1.4 version
    package2  - GNOME 2 version (in experimental?)
                 Provides: package
                 Conflicts: package
                 Replaces: package

How would this look after we decided to get rid of the 2 suffix?
As far as I see it we would do the following:

  1) Upload

    package   - more stable, more tested, future GNOME 2 version
                 Provides: package2
                 Conflicts: package2
                 Replaces: package2

  2) ask ft-master to remove package2

Would this work for both upgrade paths, for

    package(old) -> package2 -> package(new)

and for

    package(old) -> package(new)?

I am somewhat skeptical about the first upgrade path.
If somebody decides to try the GNOME-2 packages early,
what would happen to him after we drop the 2 suffix?
Does he need to manually switch back to "package"?

Jochen
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