On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 07:16:08PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> Takuo Kitame has told me that the "gal" package will suddenly become
> the 2.x version of gal, instead of the 0.x version which it has always
> been until now. This seems to me to be a needless churning of package
> names and filenames.
>
> It also causes me pain; gnucash needs the Gnome 1 gal. I'm happy to
> maintain the package; that's not the problem.
I'm confused; libgal2.4{,-dev} are in unstable now, and don't conflict with
libgal{,-dev}, needed by gnucash, gpredict etc. Hence there doesn't seem
to be any particular need to remove the old version.
> The problem is that Takuo wants to continue to maintain the "gal"
> package, but have it be the new version. Instead of simply orphaning
> the package he doesn't want, he is going to *totally change its
> source* and then take the totally new source and install the result on
> the old file names.
Yes, this seems unnecessary.
thanks,
Hamish
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