Bug#597722: unblock: bluedevil/1.0~rc3-1
On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 12:54:15 +0300, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
>
>> kbluetooth is transitional for the kbluetooth that was in unstable
>> (but never made it into testing). One of the ex-maintainers of
>> kbluetooth suggested that I should also add a transitional package for
>> it. Their version is just something higher than the last version of
>> kbluetooth/kdebluetooth that was in unstable. I did that to avoid
>> bumping epoch on bluedevil. Having to modify debian/rules for each
>> upload isn't so great, but it's not much hassle either, because I
>> don't intend to do any further uploads before squeeze is released and
>> after the release I will again drop the transitional packages (well,
>> supposing that the release will take some time...).
>>
> Well I don't see a reason for squeeze to carry the kbluetooth cruft.
> And I don't think the way you call dh_gencontrol is acceptable, you
> could just pick the version from the changelog and add the epoch instead
> of hardcoding it.
Ok, understood, so if I drop the kbluetooth transitional package and
generate the version from debian/changelog somehow, would you then
unblock it?
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