Hi Afif,
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:31:28PM -0800, Afif Elghraoui wrote:
> >Since I'm not a user of all this software I do not have any objections.
> >However, I wonder whether we should provide kind of a sensible
> >"migration path" and add "Replaces: tophat" to hisat2 or something like
> >this.
>
> Ack. Although I don't believe Replaces: is correct here (looking at Debian
> policy).
Its definitely incorrect. However, we need to make sure that users who
had installed tophat get hisat2 installed.
> Maybe a transitional package is needed, which would have to sit through
> another stable release cycle. That would also satisfy the concerns about
> notification time that the others brought up on this thread.
After reading this thread I think the better way to go is:
1. tophat Depends hisat2 (solves the issue that the replacement
will be installed
2. provide instead of /usr/bin/tophat a shell script issuing
a warning first before the actual tophat call
What about this?
Kind regards
Andreas.
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