Re: removing tophat from Debian
Hi, Andreas,
On December 16, 2017 1:15:16 PM PST, Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
>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?
>
That looks like a transitional package. I'm for it.
regards
Afif
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