On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:32 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le jeudi 19 mai 2011 à 10:16 -0400, Adam C Powell IV a écrit : > > Dear Debian Scientists, > > > The question to Debian is: do we package OCC or OCE? If OCE, do we > > change the name, or just trust that the changes are minor and fully > > compatible? If the changes are just minor, then do we just gather the > > git patches in debian/patches? > It is a good news! > I think we should package it but we will probably have to change the > name to avoid confusion for users... > > However, we will have to make sure OCE is not diverging from upstream > too much.. So I guess this depends on which direction the project takes. My understanding is that this is just for providing issue tracking and bug fixes where upstream has dropped the ball. The most ambitious change people have suggested is to switch from autotools to cmake. And the plan is to incorporate all upstream releases into it. Given all this, I don't see a reason to change the name of the Debian package. Even a build system change leaves the bulk of the code the same, all of the interfaces remain the same, etc., so does the name really need to change? If there are new features or incompatible changes -- even fixes which change the behavior to match the design or documentation -- then that's a different story... -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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