Hi, On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:40:37AM +0100, Robert Haist wrote: > while investigating a new update for radare2-cutter in regard to a > planed removal of the package from my side I disovered that there > has been a recent upstream community split that might be relevant > to our packaging efforts in the whole radare2 realm[1]. > > The original developers of radare2-cutter left the project and are > now working on a radare2 fork called rizin that is focused on > stability. > > [1] https://rizin.re/posts/faq/#why-did-you-fork-radare2 Ok. Let's see what happens. For now it seems both projects are actively receiving and handling patches. > 1.12.0 will be the last release of cutter with r2 as a backend. > > My suggestion: > > 1. Package rizin in addition to r2 (I can look into that) > 2. RM radare2-cutter because there will be no further updates from the r2 team and the package name will change nonetheless > 3. Create a rizin-cutter package and make it a replacement pkg > > Any objections or ideas? I suggest: 1. Package rizin in addition to r2 2. Package rizin-cutter "in addition" to r2-cutter 3. Create a transition r2-cutter binary package in rizin-cutter source package, with version increased compared to r2-cutter source package and let old source package be auto-removed: https://wiki.debian.org/RenamingPackages#Transition_package_method -- Sebastian
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