On 12-07-04 at 06:12pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 04:20:32PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On 12-06-28 at 04:04pm, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 01:17:59PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ...and while at it, package name says menadri but long description
> > > > says "Marco Menardi" - seems one of them has the surname wrong.
> > >
> > > Menardi.
> > >
> > > I wonder if there's a way around renaming the packages.
> >
> > Only way "around" that I can see is to keep the package as-is, having it
> > become "the official Debian way to spell Menardi" :-P
> >
> > I would suggest to post fixed packages to experimental, and when
> > approved by ftpmasters (which most likely will happen _after_ the freeze
> > has begun) ask Release managers for an exception. Since no other
> > packages depend on it that shouldn't need much convincing. Only _after_
> > getting approval (or after release of Wheezy, in case Release managers
> > reject the request) upload the renamed package to unstable.
>
> Done: new ("menardi") now in experimental:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/src:asterisk-prompt-itGreat! > Upgrading from Squeeze (or from current Wheezy) 20060510-3 should still > work - the dummy package asterisk-prompt-it will pull the right one. Nice. > In case someone has already installed asterisk-promt-it-menadri: The > "menadri" and "menardi" variants are co-installable. I gave a slightly > higher priority to the alternatives of the newer "menadri" package, > but the user will have to know of the new name. I hope it will not > exist for long and thus no special handling for that case will be > needed. Uhm, I sure hope you mean the opposite: that it is the "menardi" one that is newer and has been given higher priority :-) - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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