Hi! On Tue, 2024-10-08 at 09:01:06 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > 1) Take current non-OpenBSD 'signify' source package and upload NEW > 'signify-mail' with d/control modified as: > > Source: signify-mail > ... > Package: signify-mail > Replaces: signify (<= 1.14-7) > > Do we need 'Breaks: signify (<= 1.14-7)' too? Conflicts? > > I've re-read chapter 7 of the policy manual again, but I have read it so > many times before and still don't feel confident about what it actually > means. https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html > > 2) Once 'signify-mail' has entered testing, open a ftp.debian.org RM bug > for 'signify' to get the binary packages removed from testing. > > 3) Open a wishlist bug for 'signify-openbsd' with a patch to provide a > 'Package: signify' that has /usr/bin/signify and to add: > > Conflicts: signify (<= 1.14-7), signify-mail > > Is a similar Breaks needed too? > > The 'signify-openbsd' binary package should be left around as a empty > dummy package for transitions to the new 'signify' binary package. > > 4) Uploading source package 'signify-openbsd' to NEW as 'signify', and > then ask for removal of the old 'signify-openbsd' source package. This > is nice but optional. It was suggested this can trigger BTS bugs. It > may be best to wait until at least trixie+1. This doesn't affect users > so is more of an developer aesthetic concern, which may suggest it isn't > worth doing at all.
Not digging into the packaging side of things, but I think you can probably optimize/reduce NEW trips and archive admins intervention, by taking into account that (AFAIR and if things have not changed?) source package renames do not go through NEW. That you can take over (also AFAIR if things have not changed) a binary package from another source package. And that binaries no longer produced by any source get automatically garbage collected (https://wiki.debian.org/Glossary#nbs). So depending on the timelines, the process could be reduced by staging the binary package moves/take-overs and source package renames in different ordered uploads. Thanks, Guillem
