Intend to orphan pscan.
Dear debian-devel,
I am maintaining a package that shares binary names with three others,
cons, hsffig and pscan. I contacted their developpers in private,
via debian-devel, and then through the BTS. I got an answer from the
maintainer of cons, but the maintainers of hsffig and pscan, although
active, have opted out answering.
In the meantime, hsffig has been orphaned by others, and its removal is
currently discussed.
I would like to know if it is OK that I orphan pscan and open a
discussion about its removal.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Wako, Saitama, Japan
Debian-Med packaging team.
Le Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:15:31PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit :
> Dear Hwei, Uwe and John,
>
> I did not manage to contact you in private (see below), therefore by
> policy 10.1 I have to move the discussion on debian-devel (copy sent to
> debian-med). We (the members of the pkg-emboss project on Alioth) have
> uploaded a new package in the experimental section of Debian, emboss,
> which provides binary program with similar names as your packages.
>
> I would like to discuss what is the best solution to this problem for
> our users. We have already explored a few possible directions on the
> debian-med mailing list:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/04/msg00075.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/05/msg00000.html
> (The thread is split on two months)
>
> Basically, the plan would be to provide the binaries under their
> original names in /usr/lib, and symlinks in /usr/bin. With such a setup,
> a user can set his PATH in order to have access to the original names of
> the binary programs.
>
> However, if I do not get answers, I will suppose that nobody cares about
> the packages cons, pscan and/or hsffig anymore, and will request their
> removal rather than complicating the things for the users of EMBOSS.
>
> Have a nice day,
>
> -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org> -----
>
> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:53:45 +0900
> From: Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>
> To: Hwei Sheng Teoh <hsteoh@debian.org>, Uwe Hermann <uwe@debian.org>,
> John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
> Cc: debian-med@lists.debian.org
> Subject: New pacakge containing binaries with same name as some from the packages cons, pscan and hsffig.
> Reply-To: charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)
>
> Dear Hwei, Uwe and John,
>
> We have uploaded a package to experimental, "emboss", and it contains
> binaries whose name are already "taken" by your packages: cons, pscan
> and splitter.
>
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emboss.html
>
> Emboss is a suite of many command line programs, it has web interfaces
> and people use the program names in scripts. I am therefore quite
> reluctant to rename the Emboss binaries, as I think that people will
> just not use the package if I do this.
>
> I would like to have your opinion on what to do. The most
> straightforward would be to swich the priorities of our packages to
> extra and conflict on each other, but I do not know how to interpret the
> policy... it this solution acceptable ?
>
> Have a nice day,
>
>
> --
> Charles Plessy
> Debian EMBOSS Packaging Team
> Wako, Saitama, Japan
>
>
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Charles Plessy
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Wako, Saitama, Japan
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