Hi Cyril, On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi Sergei, > > (replying to the first part only since it strikes me) > > Sergei Golovan <sgolo...@nes.ru> (2013-09-25): >> 2. Renaming tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev into libtcl8.5-dev and >> libtk8.5-dev respectively (the latter packages still provide the >> former as virtual packages to break as few packages as it could be). >> This change is not strictly necessary, but the new names follow the >> common convention for development libraries. > > please don't. Renaming without having a reason is a bad idea, that means > creating a lot of work for no benefit. (Besides having to adjust a few > packages in unstable, which you mentioned already, imagine someone > backporting her packages to previous releases, she gets to carry a diff > because of “cosmetics”, which isn't nice.)
You are right. The old names tcl8.5-dev and tk8.5-dev are not pretty given they accompany libtcl8.5 and libtk8.5, but fully replacing them by libtcl8.5-dev and libtk8.5-dev will take a lot of work. Okay, I'll return the old names for the -dev packages. > >> 3. Renaming tcl-dev and tk-dev into libtcl-dev and libtk-dev. Since >> too many packages have versioned build-dependencies on tcl-dev or >> tk-dev, I chose to retain tcl-dev and tk-dev packages (as >> meta-packages which depend on libtcl-dev and libtk-dev). Switching to >> libtcl-dev and libtk-dev can be gradual. Would adding a lintian >> warning discouraging to use the old names possible? > > Same as above: creating work for no actual benefit. Nice package name is a benefit to me, though it might not exceed the costs of moving. > > If that was triggered by some lintian warnings, just override them and > be done with it. Lintian isn't here to generate work. I meant a lintian warning which softly encourages to switch to libtcl-dev from tcl-dev. -- Sergei Golovan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caoq2pxf-wpfndlb53rseubndw_j9xosj0rjcf8xvtt+tkjz...@mail.gmail.com
