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Re: inews package rename



On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:02:22PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> I've recently taken over a few packages at the request of the previous
> maintainer.  I elimated some policy violating cruft from the cnews
> postinstall, maintly it was supporting upgrades from bo and slink.
> 
> inews has a bug on it requesting a rename to inews-cnews, since it may
> be confusing to inn users.  However, package renames are messey and
> I'd like to avoid that.
> 
> Possible courses of action:
> 
> 1.  Leave things as-is.
> 
> 2.  Rename inews to inews-cnews.
> 
> 3.  Incorporate inews into cnews.  
> 
> While I'm doing 1 for now, I think 3 is the best long term solution.
> Most cnews users want the improved inews, and both inews and cnews are
> stagnant upstream.
> 
> Also, the upstream version of cnews on the debian package is cr.g7,
> which lintian complains about.  Since the actual upstream release is
> patch G, (almost a decade old) and I don't expect there to be another,
> I don't see much point in changing it now.
> 

What is your question?
Are you waiting for 'go ahead' or 'hold your horses' ?
Please, tell us why you did the posting.

> -- 
> Blars Blarson			blarson@blars.org

Geert Stappers

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