Re: 539 transition packages...

[Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>]

Hi Joachim,

Am 05.04.2011 17:22, schrieb Joachim Breitner:
> Normally one would add the dummy packages in the source they are shipped
> with. But modifying ~180 source packages would cause a lot of manual
> work and eat unnecessary buildd power. Therefore, I’d prefer to walk the
> same route taken for the (smaller) transition of haskell-*-doc →
> libghc6-*-doc package names: Have one source package (for which the
> existing haskell-dummy package can be used) with a high version number
> (one epoch higher than the highest affected package) that hosts all the
> transitional packages.
> 
> But before uploading a source package with 539 binary packages, I’d like
> to ask for permission from the FTP-team, or advice if there is a better
> solution.

your idea looks sane.

Cheers,
Torsten