On 03/04/11 at 14:24 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí: > > I think that the only correct Debian way to ensure clean upgrades is to > > provide transition packages, unfortunately. Of course, we should also > > ensure that r-deps use the ruby-foo packages, but there are many ruby > > packages that have no r-deps, or that are often used without r-deps. > > > > The good thing is that the transitional packages can go away as soon as > > wheezy is released... > > ok, let's go there then. For what I understood from > http://wiki.debian.org/Renaming_a_Package, using transitional packages > has the advantage that the old source package is removed automatically. > Is that correct?
I'm not sure. It's possible that we will have to ask for removals anyway. Let's wait for a package to reach testing before we ask. > We still need to update the tracking UDD scripts to ignore the > transitional packages in migrated packages. I'll do that when the packages are accepted, so there's a way to test that it works. - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
