Re: Fixing pyatspi upgrades from squeeze

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Hi,

Le jeudi 01 novembre 2012 à 16:34 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : 
> Hi all,
> 
> as mentioned in #691160, in some cases APT fails to provide a clean
> upgrade path from python-pyatspi to python-pyatspi2.
> 
> Since both packages are binary-compatible, the python-pyatspi2 package
> should never have existed in the first place, but it’s a bit late for
> that. I think the easiest way to make APT’s job easier is to remove the
> current python-pyatspi package. Hence we can have 2 scenarios.
> 
> A: 
>      1. Make python-pytaspi an empty package depending on
>         python-pyatspi2. 
>      2. Make the conflict a versioned one. 
>      3. Remove the Provides in python-pyatspi2.
> 
> B: 
>      1. Remove python-pyatspi from the at-spi source package. 
>      2. Rename python-pyatspi2 to python-pyatspi. 
>      3. Make python-pyatspi2 an empty package depending on
>         python-pyatspi.
> 
> In both cases this needs a synchronized upload of at-spi and pyatspi2.

This has been discussed a few minutes on IRC but with no conclusion.

Can someone pick the pyatspi2 part, or should I just pick an option and
NMU pyatspi2?

Cheers,
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