On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 08:16:49PM +0000, Marcos Marado wrote: > Hi there, > > The problem is in scotch, that changed all the binary names from > scotch_$binary to just $binary (see [1]). > > The "gbase" in scotch is completely different than the one from the gbase > package. My first idea would be to just revert the gbase name change on > scotch, but looking at gbase on debian... It hasn't been updated, upstream > didn't release anything since 2007 and is now 404'd. No package depends on > it. Popcon shows[2] only 74 people having it. > > Shouldn't we just drom gbase from Debian, and add a Conflicts just to make > sure machines where gbase is already installed don't suffer from this? > > [1] > http://git.debian.org/?p=debian-science/packages/scotch.git;a=commitdiff;h=00d7dad1884e5db6bd6995cb9e5c21c76c989705 > [2] http://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=gbase
I'm not impressed with this kind of a reasoning, when http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=scotch indicates an analogous number of users (109). Frankly, I think it's pretty rude of you to show such blatant disrespect for the existing gbase user base, no matter what its size. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
