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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