Re: Bug#1013992: ITP: session-migration -- tool to migrate in user session settings
I didn't get a reply yet and we need to make a decision.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bicha
On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 9:51 PM Jeremy Bicha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 8:07 PM Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > > .
> > > This program is generally autostarted at the very beginning of the session
> > > and integrates caching capability.
> >
> > This looks like an extremely generic name for such tool and package,
> > when it appears to be restricted to gsettings session data only?
>
> It is not restricted to gsettings although gsettings is a good use case for it.
>
> Here's an example where it's used for something else:
> https://salsa.debian.org/gnome-team/gnome-boxes/-/commit/b536a968eb192
>
> It would be nice if the upstream developers would handle user session
> migrations tasks themselves, but they often don't.
>
> > > 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.
> >
> > This also seems extremely generic. Migrations could refer to anything,
> > from databases, to any other data source. Something like
> > dh-gsettings-migrations seems like would be way better?
>
> Despite being around for a decade, it looks like it's only used by
> about 6 current Ubuntu source packages so a rename is doable if
> needed. I think I wouldn't even need a transitional package since we'd
> rebuild all those Ubuntu packages which would get them the properly
> named dependency.
>
> Here's a suggestion:
> user-session-migration
> dh-migrate-user-session Providing dh-sequence-migrate-user-session
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