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Re: A simple migration plan



On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 01:37:17PM +0000, Enrico Zini wrote:
> I'm reopening the bug since this affects users that upgrade tangogps
> from lenny to squeeze, and if a simple migration strategy can be found,
> it could still make sense to add it to a stable update.
> 
> A very simple way to do it could be to ship a shellscript as
> /usr/bin/tangogps instead of a symlink. The shellscript being nothing
> more than:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
>   test -d ~/.foxtrotgps || ln -s ~/.tangogps ~/.foxtrotgps
>   exec foxtrotgps
> 
> What do you think?

I guess we concluded on the Debconf stairs that it's a tad late for
this now?  That all users will have had their apparent "data loss"
already?  :)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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