Bug#1013992: ITP: session-migration -- tool to migrate in user session settings
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,
pkg-ayatana-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Owner: jeremy.bicha@canonical.com
Package Name: session-migration
Version: 0.3.7
Upstream Author: Canonical
License: LGPL-3+
Programming Lang: Perl and C
Package: session-migration
Description: Tool to migrate in user session settings
This tool is used to migrate in session user data when a program is evolving
its configuration, or needing to have files moved and so on.
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This program is generally autostarted at the very beginning of the session
and integrates caching capability.
Package: dh-migrations
Provides: dh-sequence-migrations
Description: debhelper extension for session-migration support
This package provides a debhelper extension to perform session migration
operations on the installed packages.
Other Info
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This has been part of Ubuntu for a decade but can solve real problems
for Debian too. It will soon be used by both the GNOME and MATE
packaging teams. One of its usecases is migrating user-set gsettings
to renamed (or functionally similar new) gsettings keys. Often,
upstream doesn't handle this migration themselves. And debhelper
otherwise doesn't provide a tool for this.
Basically, the way it works is that the package maintainer can provide
a script. The script will be run at the next login and
session-migration will ensure that the script is only run once.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dh_migrations
This is a "native" package and will be maintained by the Ayatana
Packagers team. Packaging is at
https://salsa.debian.org/debian-ayatana-team/session-migration
Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha
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