Re: Renaming a package
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 11:54:35PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> Peter S Galbraith <p.galbraith@globetrotter.net> wrote:
>> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> wrote:
>>> There is not a "standard" to make a package to disappear, but there is
>>> something you can do to ensure that "apt-get upgrade" works: Just make
>>> emacs-goodies-extra-el a dummy (empty) package which depends on
>>> emacs-goodies-el, and make debbugs-el a dummy package which depends on
>>> debian-el. Make them of extra priority and section oldlibs. Remove the
>>> conflicts, so that these packages are actually installed.
>> I'm very glad I asked on this list. Many thanks!
>> (makes me wonder if I should kill the extra package, considering it will
>> live on anyway)
> Are we allowed to kill dummy packages after one stable release?
> If it were created now, I could simply remove it after sarge's release?
There is no official policy about that, but imho the answer to your
question is "yes".
quoting a recent discussion on debian-devel:
|--------------
| From: Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org>
| To: Debian Developers <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
| Subject: Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)
| Message-ID: <20031003025230.GA2321@doc.ic.ac.uk>
| Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 03:52:30 +0100
|
| On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:38:18PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
| > On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:22:34PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote:
| >> be fun though. I'm planning to only support upgrades from potato and
| >> woody. So that means i can remove all the cruft about upgrading from
|
| > I was under the impression (don't ask me how; perhaps my mind came up with
| > it on it's own) that we only supported stable->stable+1 upgrades...
|
| > Obviously not. Can anyone point me to a comprehensive rationale why not?
|
| Mindless optimism. If you try skipping a release on a box with a fair
| amount of stuff installed, expect to spend all day fixing it.
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I would like to add to this experience that all the packages added
after woody's release have never been tested whether their
debconf-scripts run with potato's bash at all (see e.g. #209720).
cu andreas
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