Hello Nelson, >Debian has pngnq at version 1.0 with the latest upstream version at 1.1 >The fork https://sf.net/projects/pngnqs9 is at version 2.0.2 > >The best option seems, indeed, to offer the forked version (as >https://bugs.debian.org/862077 also says)
usually a good starting point is to see what other distro did (e.g. Fedora, Suse, Arch), and discuss with old/new upstream. Having a new package providing pngnq and conflicting / replacing it is feasible https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html#virtual-packages you can use update-alternative to let users choice their preferred implementation. Honestly I would start by updating pngnq to the latest version + patches, and then maybe pack the new one in experimental and ask for testing or whatever (you can also pack it as patch on top of the non-fork version) At the end, it should be up to you and your users (also debian-devel is probably a good place to ask "which version is better") G.
