Hello, I have done the pidgin packaging. First we provided a singe package, which would not conflict with gaim, it would just provide "pidgin", it could be used together with gaim. Later, we backported the package as provided on Debian. I did not had any special considerations that were not covered by Debian, I have tested the package prior to publishing, I found no issues. You can also check for issues reported by users: You can see the comments at http://www.getdeb.net/comment.php?rel_id=1462 The main issue is the -data package which needs to be installed first, gdebi will call dpkg -i and break the apt cache because the existing "piding" will miss it's dependencies, this is a known dpkg/gdebi limitation as noted on a previous thread on this list.
Thanks > > Hi, > > That's a good example of something not easy to backport and I would be > curious to know how you made sure that your pidgin packages was not > breaking other packages using gaim (various gaim plugins, > nautilus-sendto, etc). Did you provide piding variant of those with > dummy transition packages, correct Conflicts informations, updated > Depends? Or did you just shipped the new version without consideration > for those issues? > > > Sebastien Bacher > > > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- João Pinto IRC: Lamego @ irc.freenode.net Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GetDeb Project Manager - http://www.getdeb.net
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