Re: RFS: ruby-mocha
On 03/04/11 at 14:24 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí:
> > I think that the only correct Debian way to ensure clean upgrades is to
> > provide transition packages, unfortunately. Of course, we should also
> > ensure that r-deps use the ruby-foo packages, but there are many ruby
> > packages that have no r-deps, or that are often used without r-deps.
> >
> > The good thing is that the transitional packages can go away as soon as
> > wheezy is released...
>
> ok, let's go there then. For what I understood from
> http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package, using transitional packages
> has the advantage that the old source package is removed automatically.
> Is that correct?
I'm not sure. It's possible that we will have to ask for removals
anyway. Let's wait for a package to reach testing before we ask.
> We still need to update the tracking UDD scripts to ignore the
> transitional packages in migrated packages.
I'll do that when the packages are accepted, so there's a way to test
that it works.
- Lucas
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