Bug#196200: Shouldn't we remove request-tracker from the archive ?
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Quinney wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:59:05PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> This one time, at band camp, Pierre Machard wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am sending you this e-mail because Jamie Wilkinson was
>> >interested by adopting request-tracker. It seems that Andrew
>> >Stribblehill and Stephen Quinney are already maintaining a package nammed
>> >request-tracker3.
>> >
>> > Could you confim that the package nammed request-tracker3
>> >include the lastest release of request-tracker? If Yes, what do you think
>> >about asking for a remove of request-tracker?
>>
>> Matt Hope and myself are currently working on cleaning up the existing RT2
>> package, and are investigating ways to migrate between versions using the
>> upstream migration scripts.
>
>Oh? I have also been doing a bit of work, looking into how to package
>the upstream migration scripts. As there is the problem that RT2 and
>RT3 conflict on a number of files, I wondered about creating an
>rt2-to-rt3 package that contained the scripts and all the libraries it
>needs (both rt2 and rt3) but in a completely separate directory, such
>as /usr/share/rt2-to-rt3/. This means that someone could migrate with
>either of rt2 or rt3 installed on the machine
I am currently investigating using the scripts as part of the postinstall;
see a recent thread on debian-devel (or was it -mentors) between Matthew
Palmer and Joey Hess regarding upgrades of database schemas in package
upgrades, for some ideas on how it might work. I have nothing concrete yet.
Anyway, I am currently looking at absorbing the old rt1 package that is also
still around; providing a clean upgrade from rt1 to rt2 is a first step in
unifying the packaging of this colourful and interesting software.
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