Bug#826428: ITA: gcompris-qt -- Educational games for small children - Qt rewrite
Hello,
On December 7, 2017 7:40:15 AM CST, "Sébastien Villemot" <sebastien@debian.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 08:18:52AM -0500, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Sébastien Villemot
><sebastien@debian.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 12:11:09PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 04:26:10PM -0600, Simon Quigley wrote:
>> >> - since the version number of the old series (15.10-1) is higher
>than the new
>> >> one (0.81-1), the epoch needs to be bumped (i.e. we should use
>1:0.81-1).
>>
>> There is an interesting hack where only the old package names need
>the
>> epoch bump.
>>
>> See for instance
>>
>https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-fonts/fonts-ubuntu.git/commit/?id=046b11af
>
>Thanks for sharing. That hack would actually open the door to a 3rd
>transition
>scheme:
>- keeping only the gcompris-qt source package (src:gcompris can be
>immediately
> removed)
>- keeping gcompris-qt as the main binary package
>- having gcompris as a transitional package, generated by
>src:gcompris-qt, and
> would be the only binary package with an epoch number
>
>That scheme looks like a good compromise to me.
Agreed, I'm +1 on this. Feel free to make the changes in Git, otherwise I can do it this afternoon US time.
A full copyright review would also be great if you have the chance, but my plan is to do that later as well if nobody gets to it.
Thanks,
Simon Quigley
(sent from mobile, please excuse formatting mistakes)
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