Bug#692946: cdd-dev: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:08AM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> On 2012-11-15 09:20, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Andreas,
> >
> > could you please
> >
> > [ ] agree
> > [ ] disagree
> >
> > to the suggestion to lower the priority of this bug. I would like to
> > deal with this as quick as possible but I would like to hear your opinion
> > about the action that should be done.
>
> I'm not sure how to deal with this bug properly: missing copyright file
> in empty transitional package, already caused by a lenny->squeeze
> update. Therefore Cc:ing -release@ for their opinion on this (currently
> RC) bug.
>
> From the piuparts point of view I'd rather like to see this fixed in the
> package than working around this in piuparts (IIRC this is blocking
> about 50 rdepends from being checked).
Hmmm, I wonder what metapackage might remain to depend from cdd-dev ...
> The transitional package should have been dropped for wheezy (but there
> wasn't any new upload after squeeze).
That's correct. I intended to leave the transition package for two
Debian releases in case users might skip Squeeze. I admit that I will
definitely not stick to this intention - so the most simple fix I would
go for is to do this ...
> For fixing this in jessie I'd propose to drop cdd-dev and add
> Package: blends-dev
> Conflicts: cdd-dev
> Replaces: cdd-dev
> to get rid of installations of the old faulty package.
... right now for Wheezy.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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