Hi Marga, On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 11:32:49AM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > Philip Hands <p...@hands.com> writes: > > It seems like you are tempted to drop htags anyway now, so calling the > > version 6 package 'global' and adding the global5 package to give people > > an escape route seems like the right thing to do. > > > > That also makes it much easier to detect when people cling to version 5, > > since there will only be intentional installations of that package. > > I second this proposal by Phil. It seems to me that this is the most > reasonable > outcome, given the current situation. This means that global gets updated to > the > latest version, with a NEWS message stating that htags functionality has been > removed and that users that care about htags should install global5 instead. > > Ron, you haven't replied to this proposal yet. Can you state your opinion > regarding this?
Did I mess up on the CC for that somehow? Or was there something I didn't address about the question(s) of going this way in: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841294#135 I can try to clarify that if there's a question in your mind that you don't think I touched on there. Cheers, Ron
