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Re: [squeeze] Re: ecm: file conflict with gmp-ecm



On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:43:30PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Sun, Sep  9, 2012 at 12:44:11 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > Bart Martens wrote:
> > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:56:16AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > >> In January, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> > >>> Bart Martens wrote:
> > >>>>    * Renamed ecm to ecm-compress and unecm to ecm-uncompress.  Closes: #580548.
> > >>> Is this worth fixing in squeeze?
> > >> My feeling is "no" --- it's too risky to be renaming binaries in a
> > >> stable release this late.  Perhaps there could be a Conflicts relation
> > >> to warn people about the bug, though.  What do you think?
> > > I don't mind doing the renaming in squeeze as well.  On the other hand I don't
> > > see hundreds of squeeze users complaining about this.  What is the opinion of
> > > the Stable Release Managers ?
> > Cc-ing them to find out.
> Not a SRM, but I share the "no" feeling.

In any case a rename would not be acceptable. The alternative would be a policy
violating conflicts.

Interestingly gmp-ecm does conflict with ecm in wheezy, even though the file
conflict is solved.

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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