On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 05:22:30PM +0000, Iain Lane wrote:
> Hey,
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:03:20PM +0100, Andreas Henriksson wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 + sid
> > […]
> > The appdata-tools package should deprecated and removed in the longer
> > term, not sure what the best plan for that is. Thinking out loud here:
> > Maybe we can just change appstream-util to
> > Conflict: appdata-tools (<< ...), Provides: appdata-tools and then RM
> > appdata-tools.
> > Someone would have to rebuild all reverse build dependencies of
> > appdata-tools against the modified appstream-util package first though
> > to make sure this doesn't break things....
>
> I just did something like this (diff attached […])
oops
--
Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ]
Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ]
Ubuntu Developer [ la...@ubuntu.com ]
--- appstream-glib-0.3.2/debian/changelog 2014-11-04 17:23:48.000000000
+0000
+++ appstream-glib-0.3.3/debian/changelog 2015-01-06 17:20:03.000000000
+0000
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+appstream-glib (0.3.3-0.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+ * Non-maintainer upload.
+ * New upstream release 0.3.3
+ * Provide appdata-tools transitional package.
+
+ -- Iain Lane <la...@debian.org> Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:42:26 +0000
+
appstream-glib (0.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium
* New upstream release: 0.3.2
--- appstream-glib-0.3.2/debian/control 2014-11-04 17:23:48.000000000 +0000
+++ appstream-glib-0.3.3/debian/control 2015-01-06 16:51:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
Architecture: any
Depends: ${misc:Depends},
${shlibs:Depends}
+Breaks: appdata-tools (<= 0.1.7-3)
+Replaces: appdata-tools (<= 0.1.7-3)
Description: Software component index generator
AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for creating and sharing
metadata about software components available in the package repositories
@@ -32,6 +34,17 @@
This package provides a utility to work with AppStream metadata, which uses
libappstream-glib.
+Package: appdata-tools
+Architecture: all
+Section: oldlibs
+Priority: extra
+Depends: ${misc:Depends}, appstream-util
+Description: transitional dummy package for appdata-tools to appstream-util
+ This is a transitional package to ease upgrades from appdata-tools to
+ appstream-util.
+ .
+ It can safely be removed.
+
Package: libappstream-glib7
Architecture: any
Section: libs
