Bug#841294: Overrule maintainer of "global" to package a new upstream version
Hi Marga,
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:32:49AM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> > Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> I second this proposal by Phil. It seems to me that this is the most reasonable
> outcome, given the current situation. This means that global gets updated to the
> latest version, with a NEWS message stating that htags functionality has been
> removed and that users that care about htags should install global5 instead.
>
> Ron, you haven't replied to this proposal yet. Can you state your opinion
> regarding this?
Did I mess up on the CC for that somehow? Or was there something I
didn't address about the question(s) of going this way in:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841294#135
I can try to clarify that if there's a question in your mind that
you don't think I touched on there.
Cheers,
Ron
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