Le Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 04:15:40PM +0200, Vincent Fourmond a écrit : > > This is a pretty rude thing to do. It is not because a package does > have conflicting files with yours that you should remove it. Few ideas:
> * simply use Conflict: pscan Hi all, I am a bit shocked that so many think that my intention was to force Uwe to modify his package. In the absence of answer for more than three months, my standpoint is that a package is unmaintained. Not being a DD, I will not give Debian lessons about how to deal with does packages. But when somebody does not manifest his interest for his package, I have a hard time thinking that asking what to do is rude. Now that Uwe answered I would like to reassure you that no, I do not intend to orphan his package anymore. So far for the excuses. Now for the solution, since emboss and pscan do not provide the same functionality, using Conflicts: is explicitely forbidden by policy 10.1. Also, the policy says "The maintainers should report this to the debian-devel mailing list and try to find a consensus about which program will have to be renamed" So definitely, if asking the question was rude, this is the place to fix... The 10.1 first paragraph finishes by : "If a consensus cannot be reached, both programs must be renamed." So what I am doing is, instead of renaming all the conflicting binaries of emboss, to ping maintainers first. I think that the EMBOSS users should not be penalised by the presence of abandonned packages, so unless a DD/DM/NM or the QA team want to take care of the packages, I second their removal. After Uwe's answer, this concerns only hsffig (#423289). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
