El 03/10/22 a las 19:40, Shengjing Zhu escribió:
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 7:31 PM Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> wrote:
> >
> > 3 octobre 2022 11:11 "Santiago Ruano Rincón" <santiag...@riseup.net> a 
> > écrit:
> > > El 02/10/22 a las 20:42, Michael Biebl escribió:
> > >> Am 02.10.22 um 20:14 schrieb Luca Boccassi:
> > >> On Sun, 2022-10-02 at 10:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > >> In Bullseye we changed the name/syntax for the security repository, and
> > >> for that a mention in the release notes was enough, no? Isn't this a
> > >> very similar situation?
> > >>
> > >> The main difference is, that the renaming caused an error message by 
> > >> apt, so
> > >> you knew something needed to be fixed.
> > >>
> > >> For this particular change, there will be no error. So yes, I have the 
> > >> same
> > >> fear as Russ that this particular change might go unnoticed.
> > >
> > > Couldn't we handle this via transitional firware* non-free packages,
> > > that depend on bookworm non-free-firmware packages?
> >
> > That would only work if we renamed all concerned binary packages, or if apt 
> > grew a "section/packagename" syntax (which would be bizarre).
> >
> 
> Can we have different versions in each section?
> 
> + non-free/pkgA version~1
> + non-free-firmware/pkgA version~2

that wouldn't comply with the current policy:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#the-package-name

> 
> And let non-free/pkgA version~1 just fail during upgrade and produce a
> migration guide.
> 
> -- 
> Shengjing Zhu
> 

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