On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 06:08:42PM +0200, Till Kamppeter wrote: > Sorry, I did not know that a package rename is such complicated in > Debian, in Ubuntu it is processed very quickly.
Renaming a package in Ubuntu without doing so in Debian first and/or even contacting the maintainer is extremely counterproductive, not to mention rude. The time taken to rename a package is *irrelevant*. It typically takes only a few days, but we need to live with the *consequences* for *years*. If the package name in Ubuntu is different, then the package dependencies will also necessarily have to be different. This is a **gratuitous incompatibility**, which will require any package present in both Debian and Ubuntu to use the correct package name in each, or use an alternative dependency on both. This makes more work for package maintainers, as well as imposing an ongoing maintenance burden for no good reason, and additionally making things more fragile. If you do need to legitimately rename the package, you should firstly discuss it with your Debian upstream, get the change made in Debian, and only then make the change in Ubuntu. This keeps the package dependencies sane, and does not unfairly impose maintenance overhead on others. > Also I did not know > that there is a Build-Conflicts concept. This is a great thing for > such a situation. We have had Build-Conflicts for as long as we have had Build-Depends... They are documented together in Policy. Thanks for your consideration, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail.
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