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Bug#692946: cdd-dev: copyright file missing after upgrade (policy 12.5)



On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:17:08 +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.
> 
I don't see why this should be downgraded, and I'm not seeing a
rationale above.

> >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).
> 
> The transitional package should have been dropped for wheezy (but there
> wasn't any new upload after squeeze).
> 
> 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.
> 
Adding conflicts seems pointless.

Cheers,
Julien

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