On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:43:30PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 12:44:11 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Bart Martens wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:56:16AM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >> In January, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >>> Bart Martens wrote: > > >>>> * Renamed ecm to ecm-compress and unecm to ecm-uncompress. Closes: > > >>>> #580548. > > >>> Is this worth fixing in squeeze? > > >> My feeling is "no" --- it's too risky to be renaming binaries in a > > >> stable release this late. Perhaps there could be a Conflicts relation > > >> to warn people about the bug, though. What do you think? > > > I don't mind doing the renaming in squeeze as well. On the other hand I > > > don't > > > see hundreds of squeeze users complaining about this. What is the > > > opinion of > > > the Stable Release Managers ? > > Cc-ing them to find out. > Not a SRM, but I share the "no" feeling.
In any case a rename would not be acceptable. The alternative would be a policy violating conflicts. Interestingly gmp-ecm does conflict with ecm in wheezy, even though the file conflict is solved. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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