On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 04:25:09AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > >> dbview closes 14563 > > Please do not close this. The package needs some investigation > > and will be libc6'ed by that time. If you have patches to it, please > > send it to 14563@bugs.debian.org. > > Ok. I will try to isolate all the patches that affect these programs. Some > bugs, however, should be merged(see majordomo), and I don't know if a > non-developer(yet!) can do it. Everybody who has access to the bugtracking system can merge bugreports. And as you only need to have mail access you're probably able to merge them. > >> majordomo closes (12976, 14196, 14959, 15100), 14434 > >> closes 4572, 9774, 13463, 13585, 15995, 15996 not yet u/l Are you going to take over that package, too? If not I might take it in a few weeks when my upgrading procedure is finished. > >> mdutils closes 8062, 15319 > > > Somebody said that it is opsoleted by raidtools which need to be > > packaged? > > I saw that bug report, to. Should the debian package still be name mdutils, > but use the raidtools source? If not, how should the dependencies be set to > make sure that someone upgrading will get raidtools, and have mdutils > deselected. No, the new package should be named similar to the upstream source but the control file should contain these lines: Conflicts: mdutils Replaces: mdutils Provides: mdutils This way the new package would completely replace the old package. Regards Joey -- / Martin Schulze * joey@infodrom.north.de * 26129 Oldenburg / / Erfahrung ist eine nützliche Sache / / Leider macht man sie immer erst kurz nachdem man sie brauchte /
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