On Fri, 2002-12-27 at 13:54, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Since Openuniverse is no longer maintained upstream and celestia is > already in Debian (and does the same as Openuniverse and much more) I have > filed a bug to ftp.debian.org to request its removal. > > However, I have seen the popularity contest results and it seems to be > quite popular. Should I create a package that just Depends: on Celestia to > force the upgrade or should it just be removed from the archive? > > Just wondering what other DD think should be done in this case. IANADD bug I hope I'm allowed to think, too :-) IMHO automatic replacement by using dependencies on a transition package should only occur if the replacement is possible in place. Of course, this is a lot less important for non-scriptable programs (or probrams not usually used in scripts). Perhaps do a 'last' update of the old pkg with a debconf notice advising people that celestia should be used instead. Removal of the package could then occur after a few months (after sarge?) cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys
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