Re: Bug#141686: xbase: name clash with old XFree86 package
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 07:24:47PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > Package: xbase
> > Version: 2.0.0-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > xbase | 2.0.0-1 | unstable | source
> > xbase | 3.3.6-11potato32 | stable | all
> >
> > This seems pretty broken to me ... it's a source package, so the lower
> > version number doesn't cause the upgrade troubles it might otherwise do,
> > but it *is* confusing the BTS into thinking Branden is the maintainer of
> > the source package currently in unstable (hence the X-Debbugs-Cc:).
> > Wouldn't it be better to rename the current xbase?
>
> The BTS is brain damaged about this, too. Very convenient for the
> maintainer of this new "xbase" package, I will see all his bug reports.
> :-P
It's not actually BTS' fault; the part of dinstall that generates the
Maintainers file would need to be changed to fix this.
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