Hi Andreas,
On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 01:00:13AM +0000, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Source: emacs
> Version: 1:26.1+1-3.2
> Closes: 916758
> Changes:
> emacs (1:26.1+1-3.2) unstable; urgency=medium
> .
> * Non-maintainer upload.
> .
> * Add more transitional packages for ancient versioned packages
> emacs21{,-nox}, emacs22{,-gtk,-nox}. (Closes: #916758)
in #916758 you wrote:
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These were additional emacs variants available in lenny that may have
survived upgrading on a long-grown system.
I'm doing piuparts tests simulating such long grown systems locally and
would expect to find some ancient packages that break once a modern
emacs gets installed. So we would generate a list of Breaks against
cruft packages that would need to be added to the appropriate modern
emacs package.
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in other words - and please correct me if I'm wrong - you added
long gone transitional packages back only to make some (more or less)
pointless upgrades from lenny behave better today?
I'm really not sure this is a sensible approach. Usually we try to get
rid off transitional packages, not to add new ones???!
lenny was released almost exactly 10 years ago. We should let it go.
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tschüß,
Holger
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