Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes: ... > How viable is it to have two conflicting packages: > > global5: continuing as you have it now > (perhaps with patches to make it work for recent use cases) > > global6: (with htags support removed) Ah, I see -- I had somehow got the impression that the first was already called global5 from comments in the thread. Given that it's actually called 'global' I guess that adds an extra wrinkle. Depending upon your preference I would expect that you select one or other version to be the inheritor of the global name. It seems like you are tempted to drop htags anyway now, so calling the version 6 package 'global' and adding the global5 package to give people an escape route seems like the right thing to do. That also makes it much easier to detect when people cling to version 5, since there will only be intentional installations of that package. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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