Re: ITP: python3-qutip-{core,qip,qtrl,qoc}, python-qutip-core-{core,qip,qtrl,qoc}

[Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com>]

On 2025-03-31 19:01, Dirk Lehmann wrote:
> Hello Drew =)
>
> > I don't think python-qutip-core-doc is necessary.
> > There is already a python-qutip-doc package, and it's still the right 
> > place for the core docs.
>
> You are right, there is one `-doc` too much.  Hmmm, in my concept it 
> would be better to drop `python-qutip-doc` as the last step of 
> migration (see below) and instead mark
>
>   * python-qutip-core-doc
>     Replaces: python-qutip-doc (<< 5.1.1-20)
>     Conflicts: python-qutip-doc (<< 5.1.1-20)


No, precisely the opposite.  I'm saying it is not constructive to create 
python-qutip-core-doc.



> To migrate without having version issues, the idea is to implement the 
> packages step by step.  I will mark in `python3-qutip-core` like
>
>   * python3-qutip-core
>     Replaces: python3-qutip (<< 5.1.1-20)
>     Conflicts: python3-qutip (<< 5.1.1-20)
>
> So it should just possible to install one of them during migration.


> Correction: I think here also a conflict required:
>  * python3-qutip
>    Replaces: python3-qutip-core (<< 5.1.1-20)
>    Conflicts: python3-qutip-core (<< 5.1.1-20)

No, it would be the other way around.
python3-qutip-core replaces and conflicts with the previous 
python3-qutip.


> If I have finished the packaging in the last step we can make 
> `python3-qutip` to a pure metapackage which
>
>   * python3-qutip
>     Depends: python3-qutip-core
>     Recommends: python3-qutip-{qip,qtrl,qoc},
>     Suggests: python-qutip-{qip,qtrl,qoc}-doc

That should be fine.

Plan to stage the upgrade in experimental first.

Drew