Re: removing tophat from Debian
Hi Afif,
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:31:28PM -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> >Since I'm not a user of all this software I do not have any objections.
> >However, I wonder whether we should provide kind of a sensible
> >"migration path" and add "Replaces: tophat" to hisat2 or something like
> >this.
>
> Ack. Although I don't believe Replaces: is correct here (looking at Debian policy).
Its definitely incorrect. However, we need to make sure that users who
had installed tophat get hisat2 installed.
> Maybe a transitional package is needed, which would have to sit through another stable release cycle. That would also satisfy the concerns about notification time that the others brought up on this thread.
After reading this thread I think the better way to go is:
1. tophat Depends hisat2 (solves the issue that the replacement
will be installed
2. provide instead of /usr/bin/tophat a shell script issuing
a warning first before the actual tophat call
What about this?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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