On Friday, May 22, 2015 07:08:31 PM Dmitry Shachnev wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 19 May 2015 16:51:34 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > > In some cases (don't ask me which ones) Debian changes package > > names on fundamental changes, e.g. from "python-simpy" to > > "python-simpy3". This allows to update simpy without sudden or > > unexptected breakage of current packages or even locally > > installed software. There is no "accidental" upgrade path. > > > > OTOH, I'm not sure whether this effort would be justified in > > this case. Comments? > > I see that upstream changed the name of Python module from Simpy to > simpy (lowercase). This means it's quite easy to make them > co-installable (correct me if I am wrong). > > However, apt tells me that there are only two packages depending > on anything from python-simpy source: > > - science-economics Recommends: python-simpy > - mgltools-scenario2 Depends: on python-simpy > > I think with such a little number of rdepends it's easier to port > them than to carry two packages. mgltools-scenario2 is non-free. It's not clear to me that the license allows us to modify it. Scott K
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