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Re[6]: My own libc6 progress, and package adoption drive. Give me an account on master!



>>
>> 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.

Ok.  I will merge the reports that I have need to be.  Majordomo is not the
only one.

>> >> 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.

I thought about it.  Since I will be closing all but one bug, I might as well.

>> >> 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

But what if they currently have mdutils selected, and they don't notice that a
new package called raidtools is there?  I want the package raidtools to be
automatically installed if mdutils is installed.  How about this?

Package: mdutils
Pre-depends: raidtools

Package: raidtools
Conflicts: mdutils
Replaces: mdutils
Provides: mdutils

This way, as I see it, raidtools will have to be installed before mdutils, and
when raidtools is installed, it will deselect mdutils.  Any problems with this?


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