2016-09-26 13:14 GMT+02:00 Dmitry Shachnev <mity...@debian.org>:

> Hi Marcin,
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:10:10PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > Deleting in favour sounds good. Do you know if gnome-applets is
> guaranteed
> > (by virtue of depeds or recommends) to be auto-installed on an upgrade
> of a
> > system which has command-runner-applet installed? If not, then perhaps
> > command-runner-applet should be turned into a transitional meta-package
> > which depends on gnome-applets?
>
> gnome-panel recommends gnome-applets, so most users of gnome-panel have
> gnome-applets installed too.
>

OK


> I do not think that turning command-runner-applet into a transitional
> package
> will make sense: the new applet has a different name, and users will need
> to
> add it to the panel manually.


Well, then /usr/share/doc/command-runner-applet/Debian.NEWS could mention
that. But maybe it's an overkill.


> > Apart from that, a sentence about this should probably be dropped into
> > future release notes.
>
> Which release notes do you mean? This will definitely be documented in the
> gnome-panel changelog and release announcement.
>

stretch release notes. I think there is a section about removed/replaced
packages.

Marcin

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