Hi, Am Friday 16 April 2010 21:45:40 schrieb Joachim Breitner: > Hi, > > Am Freitag, den 16.04.2010, 16:27 -0300 schrieb Marco Túlio Gontijo e > > Silva: > > Excerpts from Stefan Potyra's message of Qua Mar 31 18:11:29 -0300 2010: > > > Package: libghc6-hdbc-doc > > > > (...) > > > > > as I noticed, you have changed the binary name of the -doc package from > > > haskell-hdbc-doc to libghc6-hdbc-doc. The usual approach to do so is to > > > add a dummy package with the old name depending on the package with the > > > new name. > > > > We need to do it to all packages listed in > > http://wiki.debian.org/Haskell/CollabMaint/UploadCoordination . Help is > > welcome from DDs and not-DDs. > > just wondering, since we need to add so many: Woundn’t it be easier to > introduce a source package "haskell-doc-dummies" providing all the dummy > package? This way, we would not have to change and rebuild 25 packages > now and 25 package in two releases, when we want to finally drop the > wrong names? first off, thanks for taking that up! Would a -dummy package bring apt to a sane upgrade path? Let's consier haskell-hdbc-doc (2.1.0-3) to haskell-hdbc-doc (XYZ) as built by haskell-doc-dummies. I assume that if (XYZ <= 2.1.0-3) then apt wouldn't consider it an upgrade? (Maybe a version number based on a value larger than the maximum of all affected binary package versions of -doc packages might work, haven't checked that yet). Likewise, as I've seen for hdbc, there's no package in stable, so it just might not be worth the trouble in the first place. (Despite for Ubuntu, we've got a release with the haskell-hdbc-doc package name). I haven't checked other packages though, maybe the list can be reduced a little bit though. Cheers, Stefan.
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