On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:32:30PM +0200, Christian Marillat wrote:
> > How would this look after we decided to get rid of the 2 suffix?
> > As far as I see it we would do the following:
>
> First we should wait for the GNOME 2 stable release and for the woody
> release before breaking sid (see the command -v bug)
>
> > 1) Upload
>
> > package - more stable, more tested, future GNOME 2 version
> > Provides: package2
> > Conflicts: package2
> > Replaces: package2
>
> Simply upload the package without the 2 and add a conflicts with the 2
> package. This solution is the more easy, but we lost all the GNOME 1.4
> packages.
But wouldn't the packaging system just keep package2 installed
and ignore the new versions of package then?
> > I am somewhat skeptical about the first upgrade path.
> > If somebody decides to try the GNOME-2 packages early,
> > what would happen to him after we drop the 2 suffix?
> > Does he need to manually switch back to "package"?
>
> The GNOME 2 packages are in experimental, then users knows what they are
> doing (I hope).
Yes, at the moment that packages are in experimental.
Do you suggest that we never upload packages with the 2 suffix
to unstable?
Still confused,
Jochen
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