Re: Process for removing a package?

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Hi,

Damyan Ivanov wrote:
> -=| Robin Sheat, 26.01.2015 17:57:49 +1300 |=-
> > Is there a system for doing this?
> 
> Such transitions can be tricky.
> 
> Developers' Reference section 5.9.3[1] deals with replacing/renaming 
> packages.
> 
>  [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#s5.9.3
> 
> I think the following should work:

Thanks for the nice summary, Damian. I have only one thing to add:

Please don't do such transitions during the freeze for a new stable
release, even if the packages are no central ones. If you want to work
on such a transition during a freeze, please upload related packages
only to experimental until the release has happened.

I've just checked: Both packages are architecture-independent. So I
think, there's no transition-tracking[1] by the release team necessary
as there's no need for binary rebuilds against new library versions.

[1] https://release.debian.org/transitions/

		Regards, Axel
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